From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 24, 1973:

An estimate was released today on the value of trees lost during two recent Lawrence windstorms. City forester George Osborne said that over $250,000 worth of trees had been “lost completely” throughout the city and on the Kansas University campus. He added that this estimate was possibly “very conservative” and that it did not include trees that had been damaged but not completely destroyed. Overtime costs for clean-up activities after the storms had come to about $9,500, with about two or three more weeks of tree trimming and limb collection remaining. “I think what’s sad about it is that there will be a lot of trees that will never be replaced,” Osborne said. “We can’t anywhere near replace what was lost. You lose some aesthetic value, enframement to your home and, of course, the loss of shade.” The 1974 tree replacement budget as contained in the proposed city budget was $2,000, which was $500 less than the current year. Assistant City Manager Dennis Kallsen said that the cut had been made because fewer elm trees were being removed. In recent years the average number of elm trees removed had been as high as 500, but during 1972 it had been 396. Osborne said that removing diseased elms and performing after-storm removal duties took about 90 percent of the time of the forestry department’s eight employees.