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Most downed trees end up as mulch in parks and other green spaces around the city and county — there’s a large yard at Griffith Park for mulching trees, for example. Perry came up with the idea in 2014, when he was a struggling actor moonlighting as a bartender and carpenter. On a hike, he came across a huge oak tree that had fallen down across a trail in Eaton Canyon in Altadena and he wanted to do something with the wood. Park officials, though, said he couldn’t take it due to liability issues. The tree, he later found out, ended up chopped and mulched.
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