Jackie Newman has lived alongside Legion Park in Lodi for over 40 years, seeing the landscape and trees change and grow.

After hearing that nearly 30 of those trees could soon be cut down, she could only think of one thing: the wildlife.

"One day, I went in my backyard and there was a baby owl in my backyard, in my flower bed," she explained. "It still had all the down on it, and it couldn't fly. It was just a baby. Immediately, we locked up our gates in our backyard and said, 'Nobody's going in the backyard. This is now a habitat for a baby owl.' "

In the following weeks, more owls called Newman's backyard home.

Her worry now is that if the trees come down, where will they go?

"It's just really hard to think of all these old trees that are habitats, because they're habitat for the ow

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