A lot of the area you're looking at in the new photos hasn't been clear-cut, it's where the splashdown and the end of the slides were for the Waterboggin. I'm sure they've taken out a few trees, but it's nothing to worry over yet. They are still doing pretty well with the whole tree cover thing.
I've been pleased with how GE is growing in. The trees around the GE coaster, for example, are really maturing now and it's starting to really look like what you would expect from SDC. Now, the back row is still pretty bad, but that's already a lost cause.
Assuming what Swoosh knows is correct, it sounds like they've actually increased the size and/or scope of the project from what was presented in the concept pitches. Would you say so Swoosh? That'd be a first, usually it seems like the concepts get dumbed down at least a bit before implementation.