2010 Spring RNeighborWoods Community Tree Planting
At the fall 2009 RNeighborWoods planting this group of Slatterly Park neighbors joined in the effort to get 100 news trees planted in their neighbohrood.
Did you know that currently there are 28,434 vacant boulevard tree spaces throughout Rochester neighborhoods, out of a total of 56,550 spaces? Our neighborhoods are at about 50% capacity and each year 600-900 boulevard trees are removed to disease or damage.
Trees make good neighbors. Come join us for our largest community tree planting to date! 500 trees!
Saturday, April 24, 9 am-Completion
Manor Park and Diamond Ridge Neighborhoods
Meet at Manor Park, 4238 Manor Park Drive NW
No Cost
Free lunch at noon: Greening of Rochester celebration picnic at Manor Park provided by Great Harvest, Gingerbread House, Pepsi, and Roscoe’s Root Beer & Ribs. We’ll be celebrating the end of a week long city-wide litter pick up and the planting of 500 trees. That’s alot of green!
There is no pre-registration needed and all ages are welcome. On the day of the planting, just look for the RNeighborWoods table and smiling people with safety orange vests.
We’ll introduce our Citizen Foresters, go over the logistics of the planting, divide into groups, and then plant trees within this neighborhood.
This planting is not only our largest but it is also our first to purposefully combat the Emerald Ash Borer by replacing young Ash trees before the destructive pest can devourur them. Trees were paid for by the MN Department of Agriculture, in an Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Planning & Preparedness Grant. This effort for healthy ash tree removal now will spread out the removal and replacement costs for Ash trees in our city where we have an estimated 30,000 publicly owned (boulevard and park) Ash trees. Removal and replacement once the Borer has infected them would be a daunting and costly task.
See the photos from our fall planting. We planted 100 trees in the Slatterly Park neighborhood with the help of their neighborhood association.
Are you a tree enthusiast and want to spend a intensive morning learning more about our urban forest? Be sure to check out information on the website about our Saturday, April 10, Citizen Forester Workshop, from 8 am-2 pm.
Print the event flyer out and post it in your neighborhood, at your workplace, or hand it out to your friends. It’s been designed so one 8.5”x11” document can be cut into three separate flyers, saving trees!
For more about RNeighborWoods including partners, events, and photos, check our website.
Did you know that trees make a difference in many aspects of a neighborhood? The below information is from the Alliance for Community Trees and additional facts and figures can be found on their website.
- Lower crime.
The presence of trees in urban neighborhoods has been linked to reduced crime. - Cleaner air
Trees provide the oxygen we breathe. One acre of trees produces enough oxygen for 18 people to breathe each day and eliminates as much carbon dioxide from the air as is produced from driving a car 26,000 miles. - Energy savings.
Trees lower the temperature through shade. The cooling effects of trees can save millions of energy dollars. - More public revenue.
Studies have shown that trees enhance community economic stability by attracting businesses and tourists. - Higher property values.
Property values of homes with trees in the landscape are 5 – 20% higher than equivalent properties without trees. - More efficient stormwater management.
One tree reduces 4000 gallons of storm water runoff annually. 400 trees will capture 140,000 gallons of rainwater annually. That is, 4 million trees would save $14 million in annual storm water runoff costs.
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