Description
Dead trees from lack if maintenance. Suggestions.
1. Split new tree budget into three parts.
2. Spend first third on purchasing and planting trees. Match predominate species on any given block. Space trees 30-35' apart. Edward Street is good prototype.
3. Use remaining 2/3 budget to water and maintain trees until they are fully established.
Thanks
3 Comments
cordalie (Registered User)
Walk to There (Registered User)
Closed Rebecca Bombero, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer (Verified Official)
Thanks for your suggestion. 1/3 of our Capital budget does go to tree planting we try to have as many trees planted as we remove. The rest of the capital budget goes to removals and trimming. Unfortunately, we have more requests each year than we have the capacity to meet so we can't commit more.
For tree plantings we work with URI to identify a volunteer steward for each tree planted who ensures that the trees are watered for the first three years of establishment. This model has a significantly higher survival rate than other methods. Unfortunately there are many other stresses on trees. We also work on a 5/5 rule - in no year no more than 20% of a tree planted will be from the same genius. Of that 20% no more than 20% will be from the same species to help reduce the likelihood of loosing an entire street from one of those stresses like the emerald ash borer or dutch elm.
The image you included looks like Oranges street, not Chapel. Please let us know the correct address in a new posting so we can make sure we have the tree inspected.