Oakland neighbors fight golf course's plan to remove nearly 200 redwood trees

OAKLAND, Calif. - There is a key deadline Thursday for a proposal to remove nearly 200 redwood trees on a golf course in East Oakland . A growing group of neighbors is fighting back, to try to preserve the trees that have been there for decades.

Neighbors ‘upset’, ‘in shock’ over plan to remove redwoods

"They're redwood trees," said Lydia Day, who has lived in Oakland's Sequoyah neighborhood since 1976. "They are so beautiful."

The coast redwood trees at the nearby Sequoyah Country Club were here before she moved in.

So when she heard about half of the roughly 350 redwoods on the property were slated to be removed, she says: "I was very upset. I was very upset."

What we know:

The golf course plans to remove 175 coast redwoods on its property. Seven are dead and the others, they