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High in the Idyllwild Christmas Tree, near the star and attaching strings of lights was Jose Flores. The annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony will be held Saturday, Nov. 25. Photo by JP Crumrine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Phyllis Mueller has long served as caretaker for the Idyllwild Christmas sequoia \u2014 coordinating and often providing water, mulch, arborist spray and prayers \u2014 coordinating with arborist John Huddleston who volunteered his professional time to assist Mueller\u2019s efforts to save the tree.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tree has made improvement this year over last,\u201d said Mueller, who founded the Save the Sequoia initiative to fundraise and nurse the sequoia back to more robust health. It suffers from a disease called botryosphaeria, caused by a fungus that takes advantage of stressed trees to entrench itself. The fungus can cause extensive dieback. \u201cAt this point, we\u2019re optimistic and John Huddleston is also optimistic,\u201d said Mueller.<\/p>\n

Now, just as the square in the center of town is about to return to the park it once was, and with the removal of the restaurant that sat on the property nearly completed, Mueller is about to turn caretaking of the park trees over to Dave and Loie Butterfield\u2019s Idypark LLC that will continue to work with Huddleston.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll take over responsibility for the tree health and I\u2019ll continue to coordinate the Tree Lighting Ceremony,\u201d said Mueller. According to Mueller, the new owners are planning to install a watering system for the entire park, which, in the long term, will benefit the sequoia as well.<\/p>\n

Idypark LLC will own the\u00a0park, intended to be a beautiful and peaceful center of the town for the enjoyment of the general public. Shane Stewart coordinated demolition of the restaurant and will make improvements as part of creating the park.<\/p>\n

Mueller said she\u2019d continue to monitor the tree but that the work to keep it healthy will no longer be hers.Stewart and the Butterfields have moved quickly to remove the restaurant before the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony. This time next year, with continued caretaking, the sequoia will reign over a peaceful, quiet and beautiful park as a centerpiece of the village of Idyllwild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phyllis Mueller has long served as caretaker for the Idyllwild Christmas sequoia \u2014 coordinating and often providing water, mulch, arborist spray and prayers \u2014 coordinating with arborist John Huddleston who volunteered his professional time to assist Mueller\u2019s efforts to save the tree. \u201cThe tree has made improvement this year over last,\u201d said Mueller, who founded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nIdyllwild's Christmas sequoia showing new growth • Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2017\/11\/21\/idyllwilds-christmas-sequoia-showing-new-growth\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/\",\"name\":\"Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"description\":\"Almost All the News \\u2014\\u00a0Part of the Time\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2017\/11\/21\/idyllwilds-christmas-sequoia-showing-new-growth\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tree.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2017\/11\/21\/idyllwilds-christmas-sequoia-showing-new-growth\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2017\/11\/21\/idyllwilds-christmas-sequoia-showing-new-growth\/\",\"name\":\"Idyllwild's Christmas sequoia showing new growth • Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2017\/11\/21\/idyllwilds-christmas-sequoia-showing-new-growth\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-11-21T23:39:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-11-21T23:39:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/800eebb80d1e5e36859dc6c5cb500784\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2017\/11\/21\/idyllwilds-christmas-sequoia-showing-new-growth\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/800eebb80d1e5e36859dc6c5cb500784\",\"name\":\"Marshall Smith\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f832ebbb90c77ae40e932b1b868a8db?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Marshall Smith\"},\"description\":\"Marshall Smith has been writing for the Town Crier since 2005. His favorite quote is: '\\\"Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.\\\" Robert Kennedy quoting George Bernard Shaw\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53390,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53388\/revisions\/53390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}