BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Construction on the Westside Parkway project would have caused 52 trees to be cut down. But the city of Taft needed some trees for some development projects of their own and made a deal with Bakersfield to save the trees.

The city of Bakersfield also needed trees to fill in for the 40 diseased and dying Redwood trees on Hageman Road, but budget issues have delayed that process.

The Tree Foundation of Kern helped lay the roots for the relocation effort as city of Taft paid the bill. Thursday, crews from General Tree removed the trees that consisted of some redwoods, Chinese elms, flowering pears and liquid ambers from the median on Calloway Drive.

Twenty of those trees will be replanted in Bakersfield and 32 including the redwoods trees will be relocated to Taft.

The original plan was to save 72 trees on Calloway Drive, but 20 trees were cut down before the contractor of the Westside Parkway project heard otherwise, all in all 52 trees were saved.

The cost to relocate those trees is just over $13,000. Officials from the city of Taft said they paid the entire bill as a measure of good will to save all the trees.