trees – Page 13 – Black and White

riparian buffer

Todd, Dan, Cara,, Aiden, Phil and Riley — The crew from CSI arrived in Slabtown midafternoon Saturday.

tree list — In four hours they planted 400 bare root trees

applying weed mats — A triangular pattern. Nature loves geometry. Lots of equilateral triangles.

laser pruning

silver maple — quick, easy, do it from the ground

street trees

Benefit Street — What do we want?
Street trees.
How do we get there?
We plant street trees.
Are we there yet?
We inventory the street trees, reassess and plant as needed.

Lady Bird Johnson would be pleased

planting trees — The Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards are working with the Charlottesville Tree Commission, VDOT, Albemarle County, Monticello, and Piedmont Community College to plant trees in the median of Route 20 between the City Limits and Route 53, roughly 80 total, over the next 2-3 years.

toting q. bicolor — Tree Commissioner Paul Josey and Charlottesville Planning Commissioner Jody Lahendro shoulder a swamp white oak across Moores Creek. Landscape Architect Paul Josey is the person who created and fought for this project. Lahendro has advocated for an increase in CIP outlays to plant trees in the City.

bare root q.bicolor — The first phase is entirely funded by the Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards, and trees are being purchased from Bremo nursery, which is donating one of the Swamp White Oaks.

working in the median — Working in the median is challenging.

many hands, still hard work — These trees will help to retain rainwater, create habitat and food for birds, clean the air, and improve the scenery along this roadway.

tree stewards at work — To become a tree steward, you must first complete the training class. The class is a 10-week course consisting of lectures on a variety of topics as well as several field trips with information on tree identification and pruning techniques.

tree canopy

"There is an update in the tthe surveys preliminary assessment — “There is an update in the tree canopy survey currently going on, it started about six weeks ago. The survey’s preliminary assessment indicates that there has been a loss of about 1.4% of the City’s canopy trees compared to the last survey done six years ago in 2009. The study should be completed by the end of this year and hopefully there will be an analysis of where the trees have been lost.” 11/10/15 Commissioner Jody Lahendro

Meanwhile, the draft capital budget for Charlottesville shows $25,000 a year for urban tree planting. Not enough to secure shade for pedestrians along the 156 miles of streets in our City. This time of year is a great time to plant trees. Call Miss Utility, plant a tree next to the road in front of where you live. It is not hard to do.
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Entrance Corridor

a green city — A Green City
Charlottesville citizens live in a community with a vibrant urban forest, tree‐lined streets, and lush green neighborhoods. We have an
extensive natural trail system, along with healthy rivers and streams. We have clean air and water, we emphasize recycling and reuse, and we
minimize storm‐water runoff. Our homes and buildings are sustainably designed and energy efficient.

Datana contracta

datana contracta — while I was picking these critters out of my q. phellos I saw two wheel bugs hunting Japanese beetles.

caterpillar and oak

midway through the pas de deu starring a Caterpillar 315CL Trackhoe, and a Takeuchi TL130 multi-terrain loader. Fortunately caterpillars love oaks. — Midway through the pas de deu starring a Caterpillar 315CL Trackhoe, and a Takeuchi TL130 multi-terrain loader. Fortunately caterpillars love oaks.

horse race

election signs — Charlottesville Democratic Primary candidates are wearing out the shoe leather. Walking the relatively shadeless streets of our city,
meeting voters in preparation for June 9 Democratic Primary.
When the new Council is seated in November, I hope that they look back and ask themselves why the 1975 Street Tree plan was never implemented.
Revise and adopt that plan in the first one-hundred days!

in praise of the dead

snag in Cook forest — Standing dead trees are an important resource for the living.

But a dead tree, contrary to popular perception, has a plus side. Called a snag, it plays host to a variety of insects, fungi, spiders, and other small native creatures of the woodland; a variety of mammals, including flying and gray squirrels, raccoons, and others; and, surprisingly, about eight-five species of birds in North America. In a forest, at least, maturity and deadwood are relative terms.–Robert Halma, “The Lehigh Valley: A Natural and Environmental History”

Excellent article on dead trees, see: “Praise the Dead: The Ecological Values of Dead Trees” by George Wuerthner