From sdunkley@MINDSPRING.COM Sun Jan 10 14:15:39 1999 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:43:28 -0500 From: Shaub Dunkley Reply-To: Discussions of community and urban forestry To: TREETOWN@LSV.UKY.EDU Subject: Re: TreeTown Intro Greetings! Shaub Dunkley here. I lurk 99.9% of the time but enjoy TreeTown a lot. Resident of Durham, North Carolina. (Not a Dukie, a TARHEEL! ) I'm the Horticultural Planner for Cary, NC. I'm also a member of NC Urban Forest Council (not elitist, it's open to all). I respect trees as marvelous fundamental members of our ecosystems. Respecting trees is not so much for the trees sake as for ours. Marvel at the way plants and trees creep back into the environments we screw up. Avid perennial garden and live on a mostly wooded city lot. Have removed mature trees to create light for my 'lilies' but not my turf. I do have a significant patch of turf which I mow with a push reel mower. Works really well! I am a Virgo sun and Taurus moon. That's makes me a double earth sign. Feel a strong connection to soil. Think the reason I garden is to get dirt under my fingernails. Feel the major two landscape problems facing urban environments is diruption of nutrient cycling and soil compaction. (Techies, see Craul, P. Urban Soils, 1992? for a wonderful book by America's prememinent urban soil guru.) Mitigate these two problems and the trees will come on their own. Trees have been around a LOT longer than us and are quite capable of reproducing if given half a chance. Thanks Richard for getting TreeTown started and Mark for picking up the torch! At 09:25 PM 1/9/99 -0500, you wrote: >Howdy, > >I would like to get things going with some short introductions. Where >are you, why are you interested in urban forestry, things of that >nature. No pressure now, lurkers are always welcome (grin). I'll start >with the intros... > >I live on a small 1/3 acre lot in a suburb just north of Cincinnati, >Ohio. My biggest project to date has been re-foresting half of our >backyard with native trees and shrubs, many of which I have grown from >seed. I have a web page that attempts to document what was done over >the last several years. Restoring land for the benefit of nature and >people is my number one interest. > >I was able to find one of the original descriptions of the old TreeHouse >discussion list. I believe this is still a good description for >TreeTown, and is the reason I joined back in 1997 ... or was it 1996. > >"TreeHouse is an eco-friendly Internet forum for all who care deeply >about the greening of public streets & gardens in their hometowns, who >think about 'downtown' as a good place for growing trees! We recognize >that healthy environments are diverse & interdependent, & that the >habitats of wild-life & of human-life should symbiotically coexist. Our >members reflect such a diversity in the broad spectra of their >'arboricultural' interests, experiences & geographical origins. 'We >Rant. We Plant' ... " >-Written by Richard Ellsberry, the original listop, sometime in 1996. > > >d:-) > >Mark Stephens (markws@one.net) - Fairfield, OH Zone 5 >http://w3.one.net/~markws - Our Backyard Forest >http://gilmore.pond.org - Gilmore Ponds Conservancy > *************************************************************** Shaub Dunkley 1608 Milan St Durham NC 27704-5238 sdunkley@mindspring.com I like calling North Carolina home! Hope our children do! Esse quam videri.