Although the Navy plans to donate the wood to local carvers, cutting down a mass amount of trees at the new Marine Corps base construction site will be a large loss of valuable vegetation and a culturally significant plant, according to a Department of Agriculture forester and a political activism group leader.

David L. Snyder, public access program coordinator for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, announced at a Mayor’s Council of Guam meeting in April the military's plans to clear 227 ifit and 129 breadfruit trees at the new base site.

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