GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Pointing to what he called the “devastation and the ruination” of dozens of trees felled behind a mobile home park along the Roaring Fork River in the past week, Mayor Bruce Christensen proposed a tree-cutting ordinance that would provide more protection for trees in the city.

Christensen asked city staff to look into an ordinance, not unlike Aspen’s, that might at least provide protection for trees along the river and other key areas by requiring city permission before cutting them down.

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