In part 1 of this series, I summarized some of the lessons we learned from those people on the forefront of setting minimum soil volume policies. In today’s article, I will summarize how actual adopted soil volume policies compare to the minimum soil volumes trees need according to research studies.
View Silva Cell Locations in a larger map Last time I posted about the Silva Cell installation map was about two years and 200 installations ago. I figured it was time for a refresher. The installation map is where we keep track of every Silva Cell project, ever. The DeepRoot offices are in the United… More
Tree and Design Action Group (TDAG), a UK-based non-profit, is offering three workshops in November centered (centred) around their recent “Trees In the Townscape” report. The dates for the workshops are:
Trees need an adequate volume of rootable, oxygen-rich soil to thrive, and minimum soil volume policies are a powerful tool for arborists and other advocates to leverage better growing conditions for trees, especially in urban areas. In preparation for Peter MacDonagh’s presentation at the 2012 ISA conference in Portland, OR, “Leveraging Healthy Urban Forests with… More
A few weeks ago I went to the exhibit Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought at the Contemporary Jewish Museum here in San Francisco. The title of the exhibit is taken from a commandment in the Torah that forbids the “wanton destruction of trees during wartime.” Later, this concept was expanded to the responsibility to… More
According to Bartlett Tree Lab’s latest newsletter, a new method of monitoring the spread of the catastrophic emerald ash borer (EAB) uses wasps.
There’s been a lot of posts lately about DeepRoot events. Sorry the normal balance of blog content is off, but it’s tradeshow season apparently. What can we say? DeepRoot will be exhibiting at the Prairie ISA show October 15 – 17 in Canmore, AB. We are in Booth 15. And in addition to exhibiting at… More
In 2011, CMG Landscape Architecture was approached by a tech company to design the courtyard of their new headquarters in Menlo Park, CA. The project was on a very fast track. In addition to the accelerated timeline, CMG’s proposed design for the site had the total impervious surface area increasing from 40 percent to 60… More
Today we welcome back regular blog contributor Ellyn Shea, talking more about my favorite tool when walking around the streets of San Francisco. -LM Back in July, I related the history of an educational website called the Urban Tree Key that helps urban citizens without botanical training identify trees in their community. As promised, here… More
There’s a great article in WaterWorld this month about Onandaga County’s comprehensive stormwater management movement, Save the Rain. The past 100 years have taken a toll on Onondaga Lake, which has given its shores and water to support industrial commerce, a regional transportation hub and urban wastewater utilities in the City of Syracuse. The factories that… More
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