CELTIC TREE LORE What tree did you
fall from? |
LINDSBORG RETIONAL At the January meeting of the Kansas Urban Forestry Council, inventorying
trees was an important and enjoyable task! There are over 15,000 trees! AND we will be
receiving more in March from our partner, the National Tree Trust (see the telephone
number to contact the Tree Station to volunteer your time to help pot up those bare root
trees). The major distribution time is in the fall. Share the Shade
applications are available from the Station, the City of Lindsborg, and will be available
for TREE CITY USA day in April. |
They were exceeding the capacity of the pots.
During the two-day project, over 2000 large trees were distributed to applicants of Share
the Shade. Rich Martin, of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, another
of our partners, did a fine job coordinating the efforts to pick up and deliver trees to:
El Dorado, Tuttle Creek, Webster, Cheney, Milford, Crawford, Pomona, Eisenhower, Lake
Scott and Toronto State Parks. As a result of Rich Martin's fine work, in the past three
years, over 6000 Share the Shade trees have been planted in Kansas State
Parks! PLANT A FOREST FOR YOUR CITY New research from the USDA - Forest Service "Carbon Dioxide Reduction Through Urban Forestry: Guidelines for Professional and Volunteer Tree Planters" by E. Gregory McPherson and James R. Simpson reinforce the need for trees in Urban areas... Urban only means where more than two people live in the same locale. In their report, McPherson and Simpson have researched and measured the claims that have been made about the air cleaning qualities of trees. There is a net gain of clean air. The controversy over contribution of trees to the CO2 in the air as opposed to the CO2 they take out seems to have been adequately measured, and trees are the GOOD GUYS! What most of this report seems to mean is -- to mitigate the on-coming greenhouse effect and make our lives more comfortable, we should PLANT AND CARE FOR TREES. |
