A collection of houses and buildings evolves from wilderness to civilization in part by the trees that are a strategic enhancement.
Our city leaders seem to consider trees another commodity instead of indicators of thoughtful long term planning associated with cultured maturity.
Fireblight and mistletoe are realities like pine bark beetles and Dutch Elm disease. Healthy trees reflect a village financial as well as its mental health.
City trees reflect who and what we are as a community. Struggling to get by…
The ounce of prevention to save these trees was incrementally too expensive for city leaders, but now they can pay for a pound of cure…
Previous city administrators established those trees. And now these “problem trees” will be replaced with a tree that we are told will take less maintenance and therefore be more easy to neglect.
Bradford pears grow on many streets in Santa Rosa and in front of the defunct Gravenstein Grill. They are one of the first trees to blossom each spring. Abject neglect is demonstrated to any visitor to our frontier village.
Trees help create a civilized community (like clean public toilets).
P.S.
The maples along Bodaga, library, city hall, etc., all suffer solar scald on the west-facing trunks.
They are in a slow death. Walk the town and look at trees on city property . I took Sarah Gurney around a decade ago, to no advantage to our village trees.
Why aren’t we using native trees?
Great idea!
Cal Poly has a useful tool for evaluating candidate urban trees. https://selectree.calpoly.edu/
A collection of houses and buildings evolves from wilderness to civilization in part by the trees that are a strategic enhancement.
Our city leaders seem to consider trees another commodity instead of indicators of thoughtful long term planning associated with cultured maturity.
Fireblight and mistletoe are realities like pine bark beetles and Dutch Elm disease. Healthy trees reflect a village financial as well as its mental health.
City trees reflect who and what we are as a community. Struggling to get by…
Are Ginko trees resistant to mistletoe? I have noticed large balls of it in other trees. Such as the ones at La Fiesta
The ounce of prevention to save these trees was incrementally too expensive for city leaders, but now they can pay for a pound of cure…
Previous city administrators established those trees. And now these “problem trees” will be replaced with a tree that we are told will take less maintenance and therefore be more easy to neglect.
Bradford pears grow on many streets in Santa Rosa and in front of the defunct Gravenstein Grill. They are one of the first trees to blossom each spring. Abject neglect is demonstrated to any visitor to our frontier village.
Trees help create a civilized community (like clean public toilets).
P.S.
The maples along Bodaga, library, city hall, etc., all suffer solar scald on the west-facing trunks.
They are in a slow death. Walk the town and look at trees on city property . I took Sarah Gurney around a decade ago, to no advantage to our village trees.
Is there a chance the residents can donate to replacing the pear trees?
I had the same question! Let me ask Dante again.
I hope they plant females. Male tree is highly allergenic. Female 2 on a scale of 10. Male is 7-10.
Females drop staining fruit that perhaps city rats will enjoy…
Maybe this tree is a poor choice