Monday, November 25, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Arbor Lodge Tree Stats - 2013
Wow - what a day at the Tree Inventory Forum. After a summer of long work by many volunteers, we have completed the tree inventory for Arbor Lodge! Here are the results:
* Arbor Lodge has 3,809 trees representing 99 types;
* Fifty-three percent of all trees are 6" diameter at breast height (DBH) or less and 13% are larger than 18" DBH.
* For tree condition, 42.9% of trees rate good, 47.4% rate fair, 8.8% rate poor, and less than 1% are dead.
* Street trees are found in 96.7% improved rights-of-way sites; and 3.3% unimproved rights-of-way.
* 62% of all street tree planting spaces are currently stocked with trees. That means that there are MANY opportunities for more street trees!
* That means that there are an estimated 1,938 empty spaces available for street tree planting in residential areas.
* If we had to suddenly replace all of our street tree population due to some horrendous event, it would cost us $10,678,493 to do so.
* And every year our street trees provide nearly $300,000 annually in environmental and aesthetic benefits to our neighborhood.
Interesting, huh? If you want to read the entire report, you can find it here. Now we begin the planning process of how we are to respond to this....more later...
* Arbor Lodge has 3,809 trees representing 99 types;
* Fifty-three percent of all trees are 6" diameter at breast height (DBH) or less and 13% are larger than 18" DBH.
* For tree condition, 42.9% of trees rate good, 47.4% rate fair, 8.8% rate poor, and less than 1% are dead.
* Street trees are found in 96.7% improved rights-of-way sites; and 3.3% unimproved rights-of-way.
* 62% of all street tree planting spaces are currently stocked with trees. That means that there are MANY opportunities for more street trees!
* That means that there are an estimated 1,938 empty spaces available for street tree planting in residential areas.
* If we had to suddenly replace all of our street tree population due to some horrendous event, it would cost us $10,678,493 to do so.
* And every year our street trees provide nearly $300,000 annually in environmental and aesthetic benefits to our neighborhood.
Interesting, huh? If you want to read the entire report, you can find it here. Now we begin the planning process of how we are to respond to this....more later...
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Tree Inventory Meeting
Friends and Neighbors, The City of Portland has finished a tree inventory of our neighborhood, Arbor Lodge, and a few other neighborhoods in the City. They will be having an all-day meeting to discuss the results of the tree inventory, and making plans about how to proceed from here. If you want to either hear about the plans for trees in our neighborhood, or have your voice heard on which trees to plant, where to plant them, etc, then please consider signing up for this meeting. Here are the specifics: Saturday, November 9 9 am - 4 pm St. Johns Community Center 8427 N Central St. A free tee shirt and lunch are included if you register by October 31! Register online here or call 503-823-4484.
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