Join the Church Hill Planters and the Friends of Libby Hill Park, in cooperation with the City’s Departments of Urban Forestry and Park’s and Recreation on Saturday, January 19th 2008, from 9AM-1PM, as they join forces with some local professional arborists to prune some of our most special trees on Church Hill, in one of the oldest city parks in the country.
Come out and see first-hand proper care for mature trees, enjoy some refreshments, and meet other tree-loving neighbors. Rain date is January 26th
Questions? Contact Marion Macdonald at 644.1347, or Alli Alligood at allialligood@verizon.net.
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Kudos to Marion, Alli and Tom Layman (“Friends..”) for this.
Marion, in particular has been active for many, many years in the care and maintainance of our community’s trees. She was instrumental in the replacement of scores of trees in our sidewalk tree wells that were felled by Hurricane Isabel. She partnered with the city by coordinating volunteers to canvas the neighborhood to identify areas of need, and with limited resources (funding from the city), was able to replenish much of the “green” to our streetscapes.
Thanks Marion, I’ll be there!
sounds good. I am a rare tree-hugging republican
400 trees will soak up about 140,000 gallons of stormwater.
More trees = less flooding = lower stormwater utility taxes.
The next meeting of the Sierra Club’s Falls of the James group will feature city officials to discuss recent flooding (hello Battery Park!), rate fee changes, and how well the utility is actually addressing water quality and stormwater runoff. The City has already held public meetings in various locations but this will give another chance to citizens to learn and question proposed changes in how Richmond manages H2O.
Please distribute this notice to your neighborhood groups.
SCFOJ General Membership Meeting
Free and Open to the Public
Monday, January 14, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Program: General Meeting
Forum: City of Richmond, VA Dept DCR others
Location: Science Musuem of Virginia, 2500 West Broad Street Richmond Virginia.
Richmond seems to have had more than its fair share of flooding in the past few years – images of the flooding in Shockoe Bottom and residents evacuating from housing in Battery Park still seem fresh. Most understand the main recipe for flooding: big storms bring more rain, more impervious surface increases run-off, aging and failing city infrastructure is inadequate to meet increasing stormwater loads. Big “natural†disasters, coming every few years, are so damaging and so costly, how can any locality keep up?
One way out of this expanding cycle of infrastructure enhancement and system replacement is creating a dedicated revenue source — hence the stormwater utility proposal the city is banking on. This will establish an annual fee paid by all property owners in the City, based on estimations of impervious surface per property. As proposed now, it does provide some relief for property owners with small houses, and discounts for commercial and industrial properties, but is it fair and balanced? And does it really promote water quality benefits, greening and cooling our City, and sustainability? The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation is also formulating stormwater management practices and programs that address these concerns comprehensively. Come hear the facts, and make informed decisions.
More on historic trees in the news… http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_on_sc/cloning_trees
Note the part on NYC city government planting 1 million trees in the next ten years. When is our city gov’t going to catch on that we all want more trees?
Here’s an interesting website on using trees for stormwater management…
http://www.forester.net/sw_0203_trees.html
CHPN got voted Best Community Blog, yay neighbors – and John Murden earned Post of the Year for challenging other neighborhoods to have blogs! Yay John! Sorry folks for posting this here but he hasn’t started a thread about this, I just clicked the banner announcement to find this news out – I realize it’s not about trees in Libby Hill Park, but this was the latest thread I could find to post on!
DATE CHANGE for Saving Old Trees in Libby Hill Park
Due to predicted snow, we are rescheduling our tree education and workday for next Saturday, January 26th, 9 am until 1 pm. Please join us then!
Questions? Contact Marion Macdonald at 644.1347, or Alli Alligood at allialligood@verizon.net
RTD 1/26/08 – Church Hill trees get pruning care today