Due to recent storms, multiple trees at Dos Pueblos High School fell down. Several of these trees were located in the softball parking lot, and one was in the meadow next to Alameda Ave.

According to Bard Salcido, a teacher at Dos Pueblos, the trees in the meadow have a long history, stretching back to the construction of the school in the 1960’s, and the meadow was originally planned to be leveled and turned into a parking lot.

”It was shared with me that on the original 1965 blueprint for DPHS, the land between the H-wing and Alameda Avenue was to be a school parking lot.” Salcido said.

Through the efforts of teachers, the meadow was not paved, and remains a grass field to this day.

“The new teachers to DP, recently graduated from UCSB, rose up and defeated the paving of the meadow,” Salcido said.

Those same teachers are also the reason for the trees, and according to Salcido, they would annually replant the trees in the meadow, where most of them still remain.

“That is why we have non-native pine trees strangely growing randomly across the meadow,” Salcido said.