City now posting list of trees to be removed
The city’s Public Works’ Urban Forestry Division has posted their April 2009 Tree Removal List of “dead and decaying trees that could be a safety hazard to the City’s citizens”. The list of over 100 trees does not include any in the East End. [via]
I had seen the list of trees coming down but i wish they’d also post a list of trees going in and instructions for their care. I’ve seen a handful of trees newly planted around my own neighborhood and tried looking on their site for such info and no luck!
If you see a new tree with a green bag on it, it would be great if you would make sure that it gets watered once a week.
Let me tell you what one neighborhood did. The Bradford Pears along Forest Hill Avenue were getting bad. So the merchants association and the Westover Hills Neighborhood Association went to the Department of Public Works. The old trees were removed and were replaced by single stem crepe myrtles. The associations agreed to pay for the watering of the trees and contracted, at their own expense, with a landscaping firm to keep the trees watered for the first year. Every tree survived.
Great do it ourselves attitude.
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