Curious R - Mike Collins spoke about that Tuesday at the LAC meeting. Riverside will be in a consortium that will source a much wider variety of trees from five nurseries instead of just (mainly) the one they are using now so that there will be a greater variety of trees available on the program. It is in the works now. Should help to keep prices down too by the power of volume contracting for trees. They will still get the native seed stock Oaks, etc. from Possibility Place.
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What Would You Do with $50,000 ?
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Posted Friday May 11, 2007 08:36 #
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Mike,
Excellent idea!! And Mr. Sundstrum and Catherine agree. We should plant more trees and flowers in the CBD. A brochure to advertise Riverside would also be great. Let's stop wasting money on the TIF and spend it on things that will directly improve the NATURAL beauty of our town. I believe this is the first time a broad spectrum of the posters here has agreed on a plan.
Let's take some baby steps first and the new visitors will bring new development, our tax base will be raised and we will actually SEE SOMETHING with our money.
Stop the consultants, stop the attorneys, stop the hiring! Start the planting!!!
Posted Friday May 11, 2007 11:09 # -
Catherine - Mike Collins is really up on all the species stuff. There are a number of tree problems beyond Dutch Elm. The Emerald Ash Borer is coming - already over to Skokie, and we have 700 Ash trees at risk just on public land. They were planted to replace the elms. Species diversity - among appropriate species - is good. Also, we need to plant more trees all over town of various species so that we don't have them all the same size and age. Widening the choices is a good way to protect us from all these varmints that destroy trees. At the LAC every single planting on the public land is looked at, discussed, approved or a substitute suggested - they do it very seriously and conscientiously. I think it is the best commission in the village.
Posted Friday May 11, 2007 14:19 # -
Well, I'm glad to hear that about the LAC spatny. Too bad they weren't in charge when the prison yard rap circle was put outside the library. How far from the library does its land ownership extend?
I was wondering how many ash trees we had. Well, didn't Olmsted specify what went where in the original plan? Do we have the original plan? I would have thought he had included a wide variety of native northern Illinois species, pests springing eternal.
I hope that people consult Forestry's list when they plant on their own property. I did. Sugar maple canopy (natural variety, not neon) and wild plum understory. (Now have to tend to aphids on wild plum, but, as you say, it's always something.)
Posted Friday May 11, 2007 16:29 #
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