City Forester Offers 90th, Meinecke Neighbors Choice of Trees
Residents may also opt to pay more for a larger tree than the city would normally plant, although it isn't necessarily recommended.
As a gesture of goodwill, it probably won't go far enough with some residents of North 90th Street who remain angry and distraught over the disruption they will suffer during the Meinecke Avenue Sewer Project. But those who are losing street trees in the reconstruction project will be given more choice in replacements than many Tosa residents would have. In recent years, the Forestry Division of the Public Works Department has greatly diversified the types of trees it will plant along the city's streets. But it still has a master plan that assigns certain trees to certain city blocks. In most cases, if you were to lose a street tree in front of your property, its replacement would be selected from the master plan, and you would have …
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TJ Monday
7:04 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
@Jim Price - I also noticed the Norway Maple cultivars. Norway Maple has been banned in New Hampshire and also in Massachusetts, and considered invasive in many states, including Wisconsin! The University of Michigan reports: "The Norway Maple will continue to invade forests across the United States unless the spread is controlled. Because seedlings can survive in deep shade for decades, any … more ›