CITYTREES is a Park Board and City initiative to plant 5,000 trees in the city. You can already see a big planting in the Central neighborhood, esp. on Park Avenue where several of the trees are a new strain of elm that are supposed to resist Dutch Elm. (Thanks to John Erwin for his great leadership in pushing for these). This is a lot of trees but it won't make up for the loss, which is significant.....great, if sad, article about it in the Star Tribune this morning. This makes it all the more important to simply water the trees. That isn't the most important public policy action in front of us but it matters, especially in light of the terrible loss this year. I'm passing out leafletts reminding people about watering at tonights Northeast Parade, we have firefighters out doing in too but please pass the word and adopt some trees in your neighborhood....They really need help right now. The wet spring helped but it can't lull us into thinking we don't have to water the trees, which need constant care.
R.T. Rybak -----Original Message----- From: ken bradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:50 PM To: Rybak, R.T.; Mpls Forum Subject: Trees Question Hello Minneapolis Issues Folks, I have noticed over the last couple of weeks a significant amount of elm trees marked to be cut down. It just kills me to see these beautiful trees go. Does anyone know if we are losing more trees then normal? The Mayor has an initiative to plant significantly more trees this year and in the coming years, but will that make up for the loses? Ken Bradley Corcoran Neighborhood __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
