{"id":12395,"date":"2022-03-24T00:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=12395"},"modified":"2022-03-24T13:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:05:21","slug":"street-trees-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/street-trees-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12396\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12396\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/220322b-canopy-street-STL.jpg\" alt=\"STL \" width=\"1500\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/220322b-canopy-street-STL.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/220322b-canopy-street-STL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/220322b-canopy-street-STL-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/220322b-canopy-street-STL-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/220322b-canopy-street-STL-1200x802.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a concept in urban street tree gardening called tree stocking. The term refers to tree density. If you plant a tree every thirty feet or so, you end up with continuous limbs and leaves over the street. A canopy street! The trees shade the asphalt, they shade the sidewalk. It is not rocket science. <a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/apex-energy-southerndevelopment-mcdonough-v-quercus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garrett Street<\/a>. used to be a canopy street. It was a great place to walk.<br \/>You can start a tree in a flowerpot. Put it in the ground with a tube around it. There is a prevailing newspaper wisdom that neighborhoods don&#8217;t have trees because of structural racism. Certainly that is 5% true. The City of Charlottesville has demonstrated a pronounced reluctance to plant trees in the public ROW. Why is that? I don&#8217;t know.<br \/>If you like shade, if you like trees, plant one a year on your street every year for ten years. Plant noble native trees like these Sycamores in Saint Louis. The planting will transform the neighborhood, it will transform your life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/treesearch\/pubs\/50951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gregory McPherson&#8217;s<\/a> article about urban trees.<br \/>\nIn 1975 Charlottesville had a <a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/canopy-street-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Street Tree Planting plan<\/a>, never happened.<br \/>\n2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/stump-and-rump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the trees on Garret<\/a> started to fall.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/why-trees-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Trees Matter <\/a>by Jim Robbins. 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Gregory McPherson&#8217;s article about urban trees. In 1975 Charlottesville had a Street Tree Planting plan, never happened. 2014, the trees on Garret started to fall. Why Trees Matter by Jim Robbins. 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Street Trees. It's not rocket science. It's not redlining. 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