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Subject: Re: TH: Burning Questions ...



 Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
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 Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 20:52:33 -0700 ---------------------------------
 From: Julian Dunster <jdunster@bigfoot.com>
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 RT Ellsberry wrote:

> 
>  Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
>  -------
>  Greenings Tree Folks -
> 
>  After running this list for a couple years, I'm starting to
>  run out of burning questions myself (of course new ones do
>  keep coming to mind :) ...
> 
>  We have a number of new subscribers here on Tree-House, bringing
>  our current listeeship to well over a hundred.  If you new folks
>  are hoping to learn something new about caring for trees from our
>  crack technical crew, let us know what it is:  Flowering and
>  Pollination, Tree Physiology, How to acquire your favorite or
>  native varieties, Funding or organizing your Community Forestry
>  group, Coping with droughts, pests, diseases or local ordinances --
>  including endangered and historic trees, What's the latest on
>  Blight-Resistant American Elms, etc.  We especially like to hear
>  about your own personal experiences working for the trees in your
>  own hometown.  One of the more philosophical issues which has been
>  emerging lately is having to deal with 'popular psychology' --
>  excessive pruning of trees, overuse of herbicides and the like,
>  when well-intentioned good neighbors may be bettering their
>  communities while putting at risk their community forests.  This
>  forum is not exclusively intended for urban forests (street trees),
>  but current reports from inner cities confirm that tree stewardship
>  is having very positive effects solidifying and beautifying diverse
>  neighborhoods -- in a healthful way and at comparatively low cost.
> 
>  Thanks for listenin,'
>  looking forward to your replies ...
>  Richard@Flora.Com
>  -------------------------+----------------------+----------------------
>  Richard Tryzno Ellsberry | FloraList Operations | Baltimore USDA Zone 7
>  -------------------------+--(http://Flora.Com)--+----------------------

Richard:

One of the main fallacies about urban forests is that they are solely
the street trees in our cities. A theme often repeated at last week's
4th Canadian Urban forests conference in Halifax was that the urban
forest is all of the trees, including those in parks, ravines, along
riverbanks and creeks, and other environmentally sensitive areas, as
well as the street trees and trees on private lands. Together, they make
up the urban forest. Each component is important and forms one part of
the overall picture.

In the Dictionary of Natural Resource Management (UBC Press 1996 ISBN
0-7748-0567-6) urban forestry is defined as " A specialised form of
forest management concerned with the cultivation and management of trees
in the entire area influenced and / or utilised by the urban population.
It includes trees on streets, in parks, on private property, as well as
watersheds."

Keep up the good work.
Cheers

Julian Dunster 
Bowen Isdland