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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
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The Fall River
Street Tree Planting Program
held an educational workshop for tree stewards
on September 29, 2007 at
Pulaski Park. Alan Snow, state urban forester
from the Massachusetts Department
of Conservation and Recreation, demonstrated enhanced
pruning techniques, proper staking of a tree and how to pick out an
appropriate tree for street tree planting. The Department runs an
Urban and Community Forestry program whose mission is to assist
communities and nonprofit groups in protecting, growing, and
managing community trees and forest ecosystems, with the ultimate
aim of improving the environment and enhancing livability of all of
Massachusetts' communities. Tree committee members and tree stewards
attended the half day of training to enable them to plant and manage a
growing number of trees in Fall River. Tree stewards have completed
the
tree steward training course offered by the Program at Bristol
Community College. To see photos from last year's tree planting
benefit,
click here. For more information about
the program, please contact Mary
Ann Wordell at 508-679-8887.
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(Top row, left) Alan Snow welcomed tree stewards Aimee Dufrane, Tom Athearn, Iana Hutchins, Donna Morrel, Marie Montgomery, Mary Anne Wordell and Rhoda Lindo. (Top row, center) Alan listens to Marie as she describes some of her tree-planting experiences. (Top row, right) Donna asks about features of the tree's bark that can indicate disease as Edmund Sousa and Steve Plasski listen. (Middle row, left) Aimee takes notes while Tom listens. (Middle row, right) Edmund listens as Alan points out a broken branch, damage that is often done by humans to newly-planted trees in urban environments. (Bottom row, left) Donna, Marie, Mary Ann and Rhoda enjoy a lighter moment. (Bottom row, center) Alan points out the relation between the tree's diameter and the width of the tree ball that should be done to protect the root system during a transplantation. (Bottom row, right) Rhoda asks what can be done to rescue trees that have been improperly planted below the root line as Fall River Department of Public Works employees Joseph and Brian Pavao listen. |
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