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...