Consumer Energy project sparks concerns for Fenner Nature Center trees

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A Lansing resident is campaigning to protect mature trees from a Consumers Energy natural gas line project.

The project requires a 15-foot easement through Fenner Nature Center and Evergreen Cemetery to install a new gas line.

While Consumers Energy plans to remove 24 smaller trees, residents fear the easement could allow for the future removal of historic trees.

LANSING — A Mt. Hope Avenue resident has launched a campaign to protect mature, perhaps historic, trees from a Consumers Energy project in southeast Lansing.

Joanne Galloway, who lives in the 3100 block of East Mt. Hope Avenue, said a Consumers Energy representative contacted her in the spring to tell her about a natural gas line that the utility company wants to put in. When she saw the actual easement ag