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1.11.2023 Trees & Public Greenery Committee

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So we can just do that. One introduction and once again, that'd be great. Okay,.

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All the meetings january 11th meeting the trees are going to need to watch again and.

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um Posting on the agenda is the acceptance of the minutes of the december reading.

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Pre-Removal request piece, wastewater treatment plan. Yes, these are uh uh two maples. um They were.

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Requested for removal by um by workers at the wastewater treatment plant uh it's in their.

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Parking area and uh there's a maple that's in pre-russia, in between two of their buildings, so.

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um They they look pretty rough as far as.

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uh Open wounds, everything so it's it's just safe for considering the use area to exercise.

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Yes, I know I'm gonna have to have staying week.

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Deb and I went out there, we couldn't find the trees.

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State street parking lot uh just another rough, looking maple the entire top portion of the tree.

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Is dead and there are some basal glutens and just not a tree. I moved to remove second second bridge.

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You know any discussions. The only thing I want to mention is that whole row going down to the.

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Water against it pretty rough shape, yeah. So we've uh we pruned. Are you speaking about the.

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Trees that are sort of flanking that brick walkway that's in there yeah, so we've we've.

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Already gone through within the last two years and did some deadwood pruning on those trees.

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um I think they're just they're getting to that point where.

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They're, just they're just getting old and they're all starting to look a little a.

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Little hectic, so we do have eyes on it and obviously chris um and andy who are.

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The department candidates out there they keep pretty regular tabs on the streets for me. So, okay.

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um They're they're, they are very often collecting debris, piling it up for us to come and collect so.

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uh Certainly an ongoing thing: we have a lot of good people in the united states in a situation.

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Like that, especially at a prescott park or really high traffic area, do you sort of start to be more.

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Proactive and start to think ahead to think that whole strip's gonna go so instead of taking it all.

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At once, you kind of tumble over replacements, so you know something visually is, is good.

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um I know that there are certain plans in place to potentially redo that entire park or portions.

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Of the park, so that's one thing where we're just at this point: just trying to mitigate.

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um And just watch and monitor those trees, we're not really thinking ahead in that in that way, yeah.

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All in favor I I just pointed not that there's.

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Anything wrong with getting old, I'm looking at yours.

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um Yeah just yeah uh just a very uh poor, looking tree, lots of things have fallen off. I wanted to. We.

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Actually, haven't really cleaned up that tree or done any pruning on it. uh Since I've been.

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Here so the fact that it's looked like this for so long he said there were some significant uh limb.

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Failures in the past and we just kind of flew under our radar. Until someone sent me a picture.

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Tonight went inside and it looks like a really good spot to plants. New trees come springtime.

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So they're gonna be clean that space up and get something else in there. I moved to review goodness.

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182 colonial drive, so uh I keep getting the addresses wrong. But if this is the.

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One that I'm thinking it's the larger of the two trees, um this had some significant.

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um Pruning done to it by the utility company will also having some significance loom failures. We.

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Clean that up, I think it was a late summer, early fall job and it just again flew under.

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The radar until we we noticed it again and uh ultimately, I think we're just ready to remove it.

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It doesn't coincide with it. um It's not a part of their removals, but.

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um Really, what's left of that tree, I don't think is: is suitable. That's the one with.

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The the two sort of broken uh there's there's a you- can actually see where we we stopped pruning.

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um Or stop removing that leader failure and then there was another video.

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And max once you say become because this is you know in power lines and and when is it an.

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Oversource job or when it's, whether it's the city job? Where is that fine wine? As far as removals, go.

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um I think when they go through and do their recruiting, that's that's. Instead of removal.

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um So they've already gone through that community and cleared all their power lines. So at this point.

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um The pruning and removal ultimately comes down to us. I suppose uh if it was a tree that.

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Was going to or imminently impact their power lines say a tree that appeared to be on the.

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Verge of failure, uh it was an emergency scenario. They would likely go out and take care of that.

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Even if it was a dream um yeah in this case, they just pruned it. They had certain failures and then.

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Same with the 107, I know I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself, but they've proven both of those.

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Trees extensively to the point where they just are just that extensive trains, so at a certain.

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Point you know they pretty much seen these trees first removal themselves by just dreaming. So.

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Okay yeah, I oftentimes they'll, come to us and ask to remove them and our.

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Direction is to to not remove them and hold, you know, do the best they can just.

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To put me back knowing full well that it may get to the point at some sometimes.

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The pruning is not a good advertisement for ever source pruning. No, no they've gotten better.

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These staffs help, you know they make more sense to what they're doing okay, so.

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I move to remove both of them. Actually, my second chance.

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I should I'm remiss, I should be checking to make sure we don't have any participants.

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Online, we don't uh what's up any colonial drive, yeah uh just.

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So we finished it: um public right-of-way planting the request to boston's regional.

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Hospital, you know patrick cummins and stevenson. Somebody else.

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You're gonna have to give me some direction. Yeah.

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It's hard enough. There we go fantastic, so we're here to on behalf of the original.

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Hospital uh coordinating playing things within the right away as part of our satellite parking.

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Lot project I can see um closer to the this is fourth week out of the top of the page.

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Here- and we have four treaties that were we've coordinated with max here here here and here.

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I'm just boards the right way, but nonetheless we wanted to predict that with max as well. So we.

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um Are proposing this landscaping plan uh as part of our site plan approvals through planning.

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Board to coordinating folks to uh improve on these plantings, recording species with.

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With max throughout this process, and we found ethos for cloud review, thank you any questions.

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uh Right the species that.

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Kentucky coffee tree.

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Which? Which max recommended uh to board in the uh for a viability alongside the road.

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So the other ones are in the interstitial portion of the.

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The solutions are those chosen because it's sort of a swampo kind of it's wet there um just just be.

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How well those species tolerate urban conditions, so um drought, salty uh salty soils and abundance.

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Of water, uh excessive sunlight exposure, they handle and we plant these trees regularly in.

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Our headboards as well so try to tried and true species and they're pleasant. Looking.

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Any other questions.

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Okay, um so I guess the motion would be to.

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Grant, google or.

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Planning for these trees.

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I wasn't aware that away jurisdiction or not something.

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Okay, follow up on 107 and 109 union street.

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uh As of right now, uh they they are planning on keeping them and that essentially, that address.

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Is losing in the street parking spot, but they the trees, will say, and so has anybody told the.

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Residents who wrote the letter- I'm not sure I don't know as part of the project we reached.

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Out to all the residents so that'll be, if it hasn't already been done, because I stopped I.

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Was walking past there and I knocked on the window, but nobody answered, but I was just going to tell.

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Them the result of our last meeting yeah, I was wondering whether they they were aware yeah. I am.

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I I don't know if we still have that letter, which might have had some sort of contacts, but so just.

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For a general procedure, I would really appreciate it. The committee didn't reach out to residents.

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Especially when we have projects, because if you make a statement and they whatever reason we come.

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Back and say that it's not reality because x y z, they will say um that they they were told that by.

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The committee that it would not happen and believe it or not and many statements do matter to people.

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um And they do come back and consequences for our operations, so I appreciated the committee.

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You know it, you could say you can talk to residents and say yes, thanks for bringing to.

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Our attention, you know we're considering it, city staff will be replying to you.

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Well, I do want to say that for the three people that are listening to this.

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um That residence letters make a huge difference. That letter was so beautifully crafted and it was.

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So, wonderful that it gave us a lot of pause and it opens our eyes. So it does make a big.

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Difference, I think citizens should to keep, and I I think, the staff for finding a way to work that out.

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um Okay, um that's the educational part about the wrong program, uh not really all of it is.

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So peter said we're here for about an hour ago.

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uh First thing: trade notification uh grab the tree hold the three.

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Count the needles smell the tree. We were doing some of this this morning, a bunch.

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Of different people, expat robbers, she said she got a couple of years ago. Yeah.

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There's all kinds of different guys that kind of stuff my favorite tree ebook right now, is of.

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Course, trees in maine, uh but again it's it's, not our downtown trees on that 40 somewhere.

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The reason we like this book really tough um and if you think it's an oak, it puts all the.

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Oaks together in one chart like I think, it's maple, it puts all the maples at the other. One.

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Chart so if you have to skim all the way to the end and not follow any of the directions in the.

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Beginning uh you can just really flip through the book uh if you wear those available uh that.

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One's actually available online uh and I have a bunch at my office, so people want.

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Them I can get them around properly by inbound. From the same, I think if we could never put it.

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Together and you know, build our own uh most of your guys already have on my own, but foreign.

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Emergency yeah, some of you just know it, but why it's a detective work. Oh, if ben and peter's mind.

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Why why letters and white white people sending needles, so what that means is when you grab a.

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Hold of this there's a bicycle: a bundle, a bunch, a chunk of them call it whatever you want and.

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There's generally five of these together so pick some pieces off and get your money down the line.

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uh Yeah, sometimes it's going to get freeze and then before one breaks off but check the tree.

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On three or four different spots, a pilot problems are actually very unique as well big long cones.

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Look like green bananas. You get a little curve to them. uh Cones are unique on every one of the.

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Trees, so if you just you know, go out in the woods and you've got a dead tree like around the ground.

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uh New concealer yeah, I agree, don't need a lot of hardly no bark on it. uh If you really.

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Need to take a wood sample and every wood from every tree is different on the cellular level.

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So you can just look at a piece 100 microscope uh and check it out. Some people actually really.

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Benefit by eating foods because most all wood stays different. uh I, when I was in dendrology.

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Which is now the tree gravitational fields, uh we had a classmate that he could bite any branch of.

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Any free, if anyone who buzz with his eyes closed, uh I think it was good at it. Okay, if I could just.

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Interrupt you for a second, so anybody I. I would stumbled on a youtube presentation.

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Of some of these city meetings, and uh so anyone that happens to be on this aj do create a member.

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Of this committee and the urban forester from the um urban forestry center here in boston, so just.

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Pacific induction, sorry, I don't expect a quick funny story while studying dendrology unh, we.

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Would do fields box and even you know, called out to identify a specific tree and down by thompson.

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Hall there was a bind growing up through the trade. I think it was unfriendly and the kid.

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Went over there with his knife to cut it and bite it. I was like no, no, you can't do that, but surely.

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Made it with poison ivy, what sort of flavors do they present uh the salt's actually in the.

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Trees, so if you have, you have fortunes that will be having it, but now we're on boards and fences.

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And all that kind of stuff going on after some of those sites, I have actually so much sugars.

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So that one's going right now going around is two needles as well. So all the pines have.

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Multiple needles, so you just got to be able to come so that one happens to be a scotch pop. There.

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Are two needles and if you look at it carefully, they're a little bit twisted, so it looks like a.

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Brand new 59 that bull, you know, sort of thing and so scotch pine for planted uh extensively all over.

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The place for years as that sort of trees, in some time great, lower needle retention or white pines.

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And just take off and grow up, so it's a hide in the building or the hide the whatever else.

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uh And really uh white supers taking over that spot, we wouldn't even speak. That's got to find a.

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Really tough, uh so short weeds ice cream. Now the last one in this is red pine, so two needles and.

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Very long compared to scotch and those are all the pines that you're going to run around and.

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Clear you know in the back, corey woodlot or you know way up. Wood, someplace, downtown you're. Also.

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Going to run into austrian time, which looks very very similar, but that sample that dick has in his.

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Hand uh it starts two needles and long it's a tree that you find in every parking lot. So if.

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They're trying to put some green in the parking lot, I want a pile, a ton of snow on it. That kind.

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Of stuff off screen and kind of settlement because it deals with the salts, so it's austrian campaign.

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Quite find one company problems with these trees: everything based on latin scientific name, we're.

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Not getting any of that kind of stuff today, because they're very good, we should thank you.

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um But when you're going places it matters, if you know that's an eastern white farming, theater.

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Has there's a western like that almost the same trees, very different, a very different.

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Species everything else, it really depends where you go so we you know our best. If.

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I talked like you know they bring in the eastern restaurant. You know that situation.

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um This one nice little easy one uh single needles flat very very short, usually has little white.

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Spots on the bottom of it those little light spots, I come up where you go uh so this tree.

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Isn't going by the wayside uh anytime soon in new hampshire, we still have some good cold days.

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You can get fruits and cold and nobody liked the cold weather this morning. But it's great.

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For filling out those little burgers, uh you need some really good cold weather for a stretch, but.

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Hemlocks now around here we've had similar city we've got them treated. uh You can put a cup of.

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Water, a lot and we've made in corporate you can put little bugs on them, but actually you'd be.

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An algae we have actually got an insectarium at our place that we're growing the beetles.

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To eat the adult did put to feed off the beetles to feed off the defendable mad science program.

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um How is that going? um We actually couldn't get the hemlock produced to get how much weight belted.

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We kept rid of the dozen too we get pregnant to them. Our first half guys work with uh okay, so they.

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Kept bringing indulges in, I got a belgian around our property, they kept bringing it into the group.

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Engineering and we couldn't get the accountant to jump off the ranch and we actually forged the.

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Growth, so we provide some really heavy extra soft nice tender. Growth is what they go after.

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So we brought me through there and we fertilize the daylight. We still couldn't get it even though.

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Yes, I worked on projects 20 years ago in outland park, and you know somebody gave me a little bucket.

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Of bugs okay chicken around the tree, I didn't tell me the things like three bucks, a piece.

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And I'm just throwing them around. You know I threw out like a couple thousand bucks worth.

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Of bugs, uh in a matter of a few minutes, it was supposed to go like all available apartments.

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Trying to grow in here, because what happens as soon as they eat all these.

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They'll, do then those bugs happen so we're trying to keep a population.

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um Some pines again multiple needles unlock very, very different short flat camp over the.

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Needle there's even a couple of white lines in it, but sometimes it gets confused for this.

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Tree so this is your typical. You know everyday running mill uh christmas tree, so this happens.

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To be an awesome work in the woods pike up in the lights, please flatten off the stem on both sides.

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To look very much like come up, but this will grow in my backyard because everything else so.

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It puts up organs and in the christmas tree, trade there's a lot of crosses, uh so you've got greater.

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Girth there's a southern tree: you could have also burn this area. Sometimes they take it across them.

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uh So identifying the specific christmas tree can be really uh really problematic. You can.

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Take those needles from your hands christmas sort of spell to it. My dreams still love me all right.

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How long does it take for it to get to christmas tree fine, uh how many christmas.

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Tree yeah, probably about 10 years, if you're, really, it really really become a good stock.

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You know five six years and get four quarters, so you know we talk to them.

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So this happens to be another fur because for a trees, when you pull off that needle it comes.

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Off and it has a little suction cup right to it um to me, it looks like one of those.

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Little lego uh sort of you know, nubs on a lego block or whatever else, but fir trees have feet.

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And they stick in the side of the street, uh so grab hold of this one break a meal uh so.

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I always go by the flat needle versus. uh I guess you can't roll up. You can't roll.

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It uh so fur has flat needles, they're soft they're, nice easy on the hands all.

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That kind of stuff uh in the flip side to that bird, is this: it's a screw stream. So.

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This happens to be a real base bruce so again, if you take off a couple of noodles.

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Make sure you're going around the back side of the tree reach inside to it don't pull off all.

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The needles you know right on the front side, all these are interesting from sort of the back side.

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Or up against the fence, uh because you don't wanna causeway, but if you take off some of those needles.

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Off that fruits this happens to be a noise, but there's always a little wooden paint. Foreign.

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Everything else, so it's still doing the same work and this.

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Is where common names become a problem, so this one happens to be a red cedar.

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uh So if you want to smell the end of it, I usually got a little bit of purple on the wood. It's not.

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Really big enough to be there yet and I'll make a hope chest or anything like that or I'm going.

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To chest out of something that's big, but when you cut this tree down, you know it's really good. It's.

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Really really purple, it looks like this coke on the inside. It's got a little bit of a smell to it.

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That's that stage um it's not really actually seated. um So it's a juniper.

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So this one is the arborvitae white cedar: has ability of buying or selling what you call it.

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For a common name, so it's lights, you got pretty tough part of the dream, gets put up against you.

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Know every dumpster every fence, every you know, utility department, whatever you're trying to.

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Hide in the backyard district maintains that you know sailors, you know or soldiers, of course, like.

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A whole of them, the most impressive standard things that I've seen I've actually got to work.

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On if you're going group four like over, what is a new general solvent rigid going up, yeah.

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There's a line of these on the side of the road and they shear those things on a regular basis.

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They put thousands of manhowers into those and they have that product. So we take pictures of.

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Those transportation this has a ton of cold dryers, basically, cultivars and varieties are.

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What we also mess us up on the border in the urban environment, because trees are grown in.

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Particular color particular sense: they've been working on acornless oak trees for years. uh It's.

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Never really taken off, but if you go look to identify a tree, there's got to be some acorn.

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Somewhere- and you know then they're not uh some extreme problem with them, so you can feel those.

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Really, you know sort of flat needles stretched out a little stealing with that red, seater or.

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The juniper chemical branding, I'm not as often as a spruce, but those are all over the place. Little.

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Spots, these, you know you hardly ever have fun now. The other mix of this is atlantic white cedar. We.

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Have I think two populations of them here in portland? One is down at the condo across from.

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So questions on the whys and the house and the detective words that you've got to do what's the.

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Difference between a juniper cedar, uh essentially two different trees, wow, so the junipers themselves.

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uh Small prickly chocolate needles, yeah, uh really tall like it looks like it looks like these- are.

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Relatively short, yeah, so a little scraggly look in the woods grow in areas you know cut off the.

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Beaten path on a trail, they'll get, you know, six, eight inches. um You know these white cedars or.

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Arborvitaes, uh those ones the lead, trafford. Well, these things are 40 feet tall. Will the juniper.

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Get tall I mean left to it, some varieties will yeah, so they have a very columnar yeah uh and.

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You can fit it, you know it's as big as a 50 gallon drum and you know: it'll grow up towel like that.

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um So when we have cultivars and different, you know roads like that. If you're looking for a.

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Specific pattern of this book and the bottom of my box- that's michael bear's book and that's the.

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One that you go look into those you know. Specific cultivars cultivars are just a sort of a genetic.

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Generic screw up uh that somebody's capitalized on and needs money on it, everybody's seen a dwarf.

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Dwarf of other spoons, um oh look at heritage. Look back and for them you guys were riding on a train.

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They started rabbit took off a whole bunch of them brought him down to boston, uh grew them down in.

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Jamaica plains at the island arboretum. Well, maybe I'll bring a tree, uh but every once in a while a.

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White fur whites- this is a white spruce tree- will grow out of the side of a water. uh Dwarfo works.

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Groups- and it's really funny to see because it wants to be a white white, spruce, 60 feet tall.

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You know 30 feet wide, but the dwarf part of it is power, so the growth spread within that dream and.

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They capitalize on it by mark uh six feet tall six feet wide, really really dense type of wheels.

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Great tree, for you know a little sort of cold instead of spot, but everyone's a lot of nature.

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Will take over and we get calls at the office at one class, so he you know has a three year: they.

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Moved into a few months, whatever else they got, this giant limb growing other side of it and.

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Several of those cemeteries.

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So you know if piscient block goes what it wanted to be, but you know if I see a beatles music best.

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Part of being white, but that dwarf pepper is bruce just that sort of you know natural growth.

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Habit uh that tree that you know someone gets markets, uh the other trees that you're going to.

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Find around here that are not evergreens that we think you know maybe misnoming evergreens.

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Tamarack a large needles in the summer police, obviously in the fall, so it's not an evergreen.

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Tree uh and then my favorite tree yeah, yeah mike's got one or two of those down in the.

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Back corner right out in front, you got one up front, yeah, so people, you know, people think it's.

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Evergreen exciting at all, so we get the calls from the new homeowners that we can liberate.

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uh It's okay, listen to us, uh you know it's kind of results and it doesn't come back next year.

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The state champion of the silver on rich's app yeah- I know about that one yeah, that's.

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A big one over there. I hope you had a couple of themselves. We measured that one years ago.

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If you haven't ever dreamed that you just can't figure it out, you know big picture from distance up. Close yeah really get some more facts to hurt somebody, because all these.

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Blues factor into you know getting some of that scientific information out there, but it can still.

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Be fun uh skipped a lot and we had 300 of these trees in latin flash card. That was seven. You know.

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Flashbacks all the flash cards, everything else that worked on this point and that makes up a.

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Lot of it, but train even sort of fun and you can actually download 2012. all these trees.

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Are in abnormally good and happy situations, both of them came from my backyard. Typically.

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No, it's not I put a few in here and there we don't always bruce a few times. Yeah.

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um So norway's groups, you know giant you know, spruce- can be very long uh like come on north.

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Out of the track circle right along where the uh uh fisherman you know commercial fishermen places.

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Uh-Huh really takes up a lot of space, so a lot of people use them as a living christmas tree.

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Because they're really top three, but you know so we haven't put on a lot of evergreens we've.

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Done through downtown think out of the 100 plus we planted last spring, there was only.

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One and it's behind the library and it's a very specific kind of it's like a weeping.

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Yeah, sorry, but it's behind the library, but behind the library for a week, victory and figure out what it is.

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Is there more opportunity for it or it's just not appropriate or what's the reason.

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um So, where we buy our trees, they don't offer these. That has to be a root searchable, purchasable.

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Trees and then, where we're typically trying to plant their good these trees just aren't.

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Appropriate essentially yeah listen to the park, not in a city. You know sidewalk strip, because.

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Most of these don't want to be 20 30 feet wide at the base, uh so spring street will retain their.

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Needles almost all the way to the ground, so we're always fighting a clearance and cars and seeing.

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Invisibility and all those kind of things, but there's a plenty of park around the city to be.

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Put into and um I have a siberian spruce yeah down in the cemetery that dick recommended yep.

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Just gone to woodbury a lot, it's really taken off good, tough, hearty tree in those beautiful.

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Purple cones, yes, yep fixed urban problems. You know really well, uh you know all the same.

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Problems we caused all the other trees that kind of stuff that would take really well to it, because.

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Conference society and the website resource.

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um He didn't have much of a website years ago, but it's I'm quite a quite a ways and.

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uh You can look up plants and they're also very into toward conifers, which.

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I've learned the hard way are always the work, um but uh but they're also a.

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Great option, if you want to plan a conifer, but you don't have that kind of space, so.

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um And I've noticed more walking around town for residents are using them, so uh brilliant asset.

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Thank you, um but maybe participating in the foreign.

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We've actually hired a arborist technician uh start date to be determined, but it's imminent.

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At this point, [music] um yeah just still plugging away at the 400 for 400 planting.

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Project, that's kind of the biggest thing on the horizon at this point and then just.

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Slowly, pulling plugging away these removals we're trying to get all of our retrenchment.

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Pruning done this time of year because it's such a big hit to the trees. So we have a few.

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uh A few projects, but I think the biggest thing on minorizing at least, is the the 400 for 400.

G

You must have been very busy with the storms. I've noticed a big limb was down right about here. Yes,.

C

Park yeah and it was, it was substantial. um It was a pretty big one. Didn't you think so, yeah.

G

Absolutely yeah I mean uh they look dangerous. Ultimately, the only thing uh so dennis actually.

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Had sent a message to me to update and include whenever a tree fails or or something like.

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Anything that's that's caused by us government. He requested that I shared that with the committee.

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And we've actually feel like we've dodged, quite a number of bullets within the last few storms.

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Even looking in newcastle, they had, I remember, taking a little drive out there, just because I.

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Heard of how many trees had failed and impacted their utility lines, so um I think we we've been.

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Pretty fortunate that we've really only had to remove one tree that was leaning really heavily.

C

And that was the only thing that um that I can think in the last couple of storms that.

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Has really caused us in grief so same number on little harbor they're on private property.

A

Yeah they were locked in for a couple days. That was a tough one.

G

Yeah, but I think too um denny tech's wife said we wouldn't mind getting stuck down.

B

Yeah, uh for what it's worth, I mean we, so the city did clean up his driveway, so we could.

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Come and go as he please, but there were still hanging to shoots that um there were not a city.

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Property, so ultimately we we helped out a resident and I left the rest to the state.

C

All right, perfect.

D

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B

Pre-Planting of the city's 400.

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So I would agree with that and before I mostly wanted to say you were talking about hiring a.

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Technician, I trust that peter has some sort of a knack for hiring people that not only rebelling.

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Trees, not only you know, trees but are passionate about it, and I I appreciate that all right now.

A

I have to say that I'd like to take credit for that, but it really it's it's. It kind of that's.

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One bit higher and then they just like multiply and they like people like to get like people.

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Instead of so they I I have to attribute that he hires himself to quarter and max and chuck so.

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uh Let me see if I can find where I just put that I want to make sure it shows up on me.

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All right here we go um so working with aj and max.

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um Our stormwater technician, daniel danny, oh, I can't never promised his house.

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Participating in the 400 for the 400 republic enforcement, I'm sure you were.

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Trying to represent some of the 400 years of ports in the past, and this.

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Living monument was just long into the future. If you follow this video back carefully again,.

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Before receiving a tree is state law that you call the big city, the 811, to make sure.

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That we're visually want to plant a tree. It's free of utilities, such as grain, gas,.

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Cable, electric water or sewer lines stay safe is a free service for those utility providers.

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Confirm we will not disrupt any services, workout safety problems and dig up all the plant. Your tree.

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Next use the information sheet you'll receive to determine the best location in your property.

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Of a tree be aware of any other trees that might compete with the sapling for water and light the.

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General soil conditions and other site conditions, so there's overhead clearance. How much sunlight.

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The area receives any court drainage that may immediately impact the tree now and 30 years from.

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Now, what's an appropriate site is selected prepare for planting? Please wear appropriate personal.

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Protection equipment such as workloads, protective eyewear and durable boots, while planting trees and.

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Let me intrigue yourself and obvious: you will need several hand, tools to plant the tree, a.

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Stage shuttle is the main earthquake. The trial, we're burning hand, tool will be used for small.

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Delicate soil movement around the base of the tree, your hands are acceptable for this tail.

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But water, hose or bucket will be needed for watering the trees. During and after planting a.

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Set of improvements are moving, broken limbs of roots in a box cutter or scissors from impact.

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The bad thing that covers the roots of your tree cannot be planted. Remove all packaging.

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Material, including burlap, nylon, hawaiian or metal wire pay special attention to.

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Any roots that may have grown through the packaging and protect as much as possible.

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Delicately remove excess soil that is clinging to the base of the tree and moved off. Look for.

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The root collar because you adjust the depth of reclining hole depending on the root color.

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Located at the base of the tree trunk, the first root growth that extends away from the.

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Center of the tree is not necessary to remove all soil from, but it is important to locate.

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Next you'll determine the depth of the whole needed for the tree standard tree upright and.

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Measure the height of the root carter from the ground, the root colors, should stand two inches.

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Above the surface level of your yard, this is critical for the long-term health of the tree.

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It's also important to dig a wide hole that is two to three times the diameter of the root ball.

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You may have even think it periodically placing the trees with a hole to gauge how much more dirt.

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Needs to be removed. If you try to remove too much in the root color is admirable or grade.

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Start adding dirt back in make sure you compact the soil as much as possible for planting, because.

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Loose soil can cause unexided settling after you water, the tree. Thank you. The size of the.

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Hole are solidly angled and deeper to the bottom, as opposed to c for perfectly vertical walls.

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Next, crew back any broken branches before the trees planted and before they grow out of reach.

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Plus the tree is at an appropriate depth. Inside the pole, you can begin to fill the space around.

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The roof wall and dirt your room, fill the hole by watering in the loose soil surrounding a root ball.

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Filling the area around the roof while would dry dirt and wiring it. In again, this compacts the soil.

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And will hold the roof all in place, fill in the soil around the roots to the level of surrounding.

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Soil of the yard, keeping the blue collar two inches above that bubble, do not plant brass or use.

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Concentrates to remove, while digging around in the tree as the grass will complete the light of water.

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After planting, you want to create a firm of soil, as you see here, this burns through several.

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Purposes it collects rainwater establishing the zone of our thick and tree from mowing insurance.

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Plus it will retain the two to three inches of molecuing on a spray evenly on top of the plant.

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Root wall, it is avoiding to keep mulch in the moisture of retains away from the root color to.

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Help prevent any tree health or structural issues that could occur in the future foreign.

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Can get at least five gallon of water once a week.

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Double in the sun until the tree is established and that's it you've successfully planted a tree.

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Be aware that the tree may suffer from temporary transplant shot, you may not see any leaves or.

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The tree may shed its leaves greater produce water sprouts along the main trunk. The trees.

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In public greenery division usually begins trees, the full calendar year to establish so.

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Be patient and continue to water if the tree is dry and brittle, it's very clearly dead. You spill.

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A check on the full recovery and renewable is the only option, but generally trees will.

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Reward those who plant them remember the best time to plant the tree for tomorrow is today.

D

How did that come about max.

A

um We were meeting and talking about how we do educational stuff to get people aware how they.

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Should be planting and we talked about some cards and we just came to the decision that.

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Again, it's done a bunch of educational videos for the city, about the storm water and collecting dog poop, and all this stuff.

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So he said well, this would be a good opportunity again that joe's first talents welcome.

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G

Really yeah, I learned a lot. I planted a tree last year in google [laughter].

G

So what is the roll up, then, for you know messaging to the intercoming to get them to.

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And think about your backyard and you know: what's we're in the process of doing that.

A

um You know this was the kind of a final piece to the puzzle, uh so stephanie c chord will be posting.

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uh And it may already be posted, I don't know mess. I know you, you wouldn't aj.

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Were talking to her last week for this year, not just recently yeah.

D

um So that's that should be rolled out soon. There's no will be you know just making sure we.

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Reach out to folks, we want to make sure we uh do our best to do areas that typically aren't assured.

A

um So you know maybe it'll work. Of course, housing authority make sure they're aware.

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um And reach out to other folks as well, so it's good, but I did pull out that treat equity score.

G

Piece that I I sent around and it's just another tool to use and, as pat said, we're 81 yeah. We get.

G

An 81 in portsmouth uh b, right yeah we're on our way, but- and I would encourage the committee this.

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Is an opportunity to to talk to residents and you know let them know that was an opportunity.

B

The um the tree equity- I I couldn't pull up them- was explorer. I was doing.

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Something wrong, but uh it caused me to think about the junction one day.

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With the person with 400 the history of pre-planting important, and it seems.

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To me, addict probably knows more about anyone than else, but not because he was there, but.

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In uh I think it kind of sense from photos or whatever the in the 19th century. uh There was.

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um A lot of freezing planted vehicles on city streets- and you know richard's avenue and.

B

um That there's a more there's a greater awareness.

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um Of the value of trees and that little um thing that we have on our letterhead.

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um Andrew jackson, downing about these value of planting trees on the streets.

B

um And it's, my sense is, and I I'd love to see a history of that and just enforcement. It wasn't.

B

Necessarily, I don't think a socio-economic thing, uh potentially general sense in the community.

B

Of the value of trees and then- and I think the last bin tree plant was buddy, frank jones and.

B

Died at the end of the 19th century, and then I don't know whether it was world war one. The.

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Depression, world war ii and have a sense that tree planting wasn't a high priority and then.

B

The progress of the middle of the 20th century, where we took middle street and islington street.

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Which were tree-lined and between the dutch young disease and progress of riding the streets.

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Everything was cut down and nothing replaced um and- uh and it wasn't, I don't think sometimes.

B

Frank jones died until 1968 when charlie vaughn and sam attic and cotilla strauss just got the.

B

Start of the it's. What we're trying to follow through on uh the uh there were no trees planted.

B

And it was- and there was not a a uh almost a hostile attitude on the certain departments.

B

In the city, but you're going to now are very, very supportive and leading the way in terms.

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Of making sure that trees are incorporated in every every project, fire placed in white trees.

A

Really was what would now look at see what just a lack of planning about lack.

B

Of thoughtfulness- and I guess it was- I mean that was not out of the.

B

Much later times, but anyway enough of iran's um uh is there any old business.

B

I need new business there's a large dead pine in the parking lot spinners.

D

Yes, yeah, it is on my radar who's working out.

D

Okay, well um entertain emotional region, but it says.

B

Thank you very much.