Two months before the World Monuments Fund put the Merritt Parkway on its list of endangered sites around the globe, the Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) started chopping trees along the 9-mile stretch between Congress Street and the Route-8 Interchange in Trumbull.

Now, with the majority of tree-cutting finished, many preservationists are complaining that the DOT has gone overboard, characterizing the work as “clear-cutting” and saying that it’s fundamentally altered the integrity of the parkway.

via Groups spar over tree cutting on Merrit Parkway – The Connecticut Post Online.