近期的砍树行动引发了一场激烈的法庭争斗，焦点在于总统计划对这座历史悠久的球场进行彻底翻修。
Recent moves to cut down trees have sparked a heated court fight over the president’s planned overhaul of the historic course.
希瑟·理查兹报道 美国国家公园管理局周二披露计划，将在执行唐纳德·特朗普总统针对首都一座公共高尔夫球场的翻修计划过程中砍伐更多树木。
By Heather Richards The National Park Service disclosed plans Tuesday to cut down more trees as it carries out President Donald Trump's planned renovation of a public golf course in the nation’s capital.
司法部在联邦法院提交的一份设计方案中，分享了国家公园管理局关于翻修杰斐逊纪念堂附近东波托马克公园半岛上高尔夫球场的提案。该设计要求疏伐树木和植被，以创造开阔视野，使其恢复到一个世纪前公园开放时的面貌。
In a design plan submitted at federal court, the Justice Department shared NPS' proposal to overhaul its golf course on a peninsula in East Potomac Park near the Jefferson Memorial. The design calls for thinning trees and vegetation to create open vistas comparable to when the park opened a century ago.
该方案的出台前，哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院法官安娜·雷耶斯与司法部律师就国家公园管理局于10月突然从球场移除400棵树一事，进行了数周往往尖锐的交锋，争论点在于此举是否属于例行维护、与总统计划的翻修无关，正如政府方面所主张的那样。
The plan follows several weeks of often-caustic back and forth between Judge Ana Reyes of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and DOJ lawyers over whether the park service's sudden removal of 400 trees from the course in October was part of routine maintenance and unrelated to the president’s planned overhaul, as the administration asserted.
特朗普总统在全球拥有15家高端高尔夫球场，他希望将这座历史球场改建为锦标赛级别的球场。一个华盛顿特区文物保护团体和当地高尔夫球手已提起诉讼，试图叫停翻修工程。
The president, who owns 15 high-end golf courses around the world, wants the historic course turned into a championship level course. A D.C. preservation group and local golfers have sued to stop the renovation.
周二发布的方案似乎印证了特朗普希望将球场恢复到早期更开放设计的意愿。
The plan released Tuesday appears to corroborate Trump’s desire to return the course to its earlier, more open design.
提交法院的设计方案要求“疏伐”球场1920年开放后几十年间种植的树木和植被，以“恢复视野”，使人们能看到波托马克河和附近的纪念碑。图片显示，20世纪20年代的球场几乎完全没有树木，仅水边除外。
The design delivered to the court calls for “thinning” trees and vegetation that were planted in the decades following the course’s 1920 opening to “reopen views” of the Potomac River and nearby monuments. Images show the course in the 1920s almost completely denuded of trees except along the waterfront.
文中大量引用特朗普的社交媒体帖子，为对球场的重大改造进行辩护，特朗普将该球场形容为“绝对令人作呕”和“国家的耻辱”。提案的大部分内容由照片和损毁记录组成，如会所内腐烂的横梁、被封死的窗户、道路上的坑洼，以及一座状况不佳的海堤，导致每天多次发生淹水。
It quotes extensively from Trump’s social media posts to defend significant changes to the course, which the president described as “absolutely disgusting” and “a national disgrace.”Much of the proposal is composed of photos and documentation of damage like rotten beams in the clubhouse, boarded up windows, potholes along the roads and an ailing seawall that allows flooding multiple times a day.
该计划指出，重新设计将由著名高尔夫球场建筑师汤姆·法齐奥负责。
The redesign will be done by Tom Fazio, a renowned golf course architect, the plan notes.
司法部律师也曾就法齐奥的参与与雷耶斯法官发生争执。周一，他们告知法官，白宫已确认法齐奥与政府之间不存在关于高尔夫球场重新开发的合同。
DOJ lawyers have also sparred with Reyes about Fazio’s involvement. On Monday they told the judge that the White House had confirmed that no contract exists between Fazio and the administration for redevelopment of the golf course.
这场法律斗争是特朗普重塑华盛顿更大规模努力的一部分，其核心往往在于特朗普关于球场的公开声明与其律师在法庭上的陈述之间存在不一致。雷耶斯周五启动调查，以查明特朗普官员是否曾多次就总统关闭并重新开发球场的计划欺骗她。
The legal fight, part of Trump’s larger quest to remake Washington, has often centered on the inconsistencies between Trump’s public statements about the course and his lawyers' statements in court. Reyes on Friday opened an investigation into whether Trump officials repeatedly deceived her over the president’s plans to close and redevelop the course.
总统在社交媒体上宣布，球场将于11月15日关闭以进行重新开发，而与此同时，其政府却告诉法官，并无迫在眉睫的关闭计划。特朗普还在社交媒体上为砍伐树木辩护，称这符合公园的原始设计。
The president announced on social media that the course would close for redevelopment on Nov. 15, even as his administration told the judge no closure was imminent. Trump also defended the tree cutting on social media as aligning the park with the original design.
政府此前曾试图让雷耶斯退出此案，指控其存在偏见。雷耶斯是前总统乔·拜登任命的法官，她否认了这一指控，称自己的恼怒源于被误导。
The administration has previously sought to remove Reyes from the case, alleging bias. Reyes, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, denied the charge, saying her exasperation stemmed from being misled.
直到去年，该球场一直是由非营利组织“国家高尔夫信托”重新开发的三座公共高尔夫球场之一。特朗普政府在总统对彻底翻修东波托马克球场产生兴趣后，于去年终止了该组织的50年租约。
Until last year, the course was one of three public golf courses being redeveloped by the nonprofit National Links Trust. The Trump administration broke that organization’s 50-year lease last year after the president became interested in overhauling the East Potomac course.
国家公园管理局上个月告诉法院，它已与非营利信托机构签署了一份新租约，以便该信托机构放弃对东波托马克球场的管理，同时继续运营华盛顿特区的另外两个国家公园管理局球场。
NPS told the court last month that it had signed a new lease for for the nonprofit trust to relinquish management of East Potomac, while continuing to run the other two NPS courses in Washington.
周二提交给法院的概念规划将提交国家首都规划委员会，在其12月会议上进行审议。根据该规划，它也可能最快于本月提交美术委员会审议。
The concept plan submitted to the court Tuesday will go to the National Capital Planning Commission for review at its December meeting. It could also go to the Fine Arts Commission as soon as this month, according to the plan.
这两个审查小组均由特朗普任命的人员领导，他们此前曾对特朗普在首都的项目给予部分或全部批准，包括一座拟建的凯旋门和一座正在拆除的白宫东翼原址上建设的舞厅。
Both review panels are helmed by Trump appointees who have previously given partial or full approval to his projects in the nation’s capital, including a proposed triumphal arch and a ballroom being built on the site of the demolished White House East Wing.