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Limbing Up, Tying Up at the Casey Trees Farm
Three Tree Stewards of Arlington and Alexandria were among 10 volunteers who staked and pruned 1,000 saplings at the Casey Trees Farm near Berryville, Va., on June 30th. The pruning was not the usual structural pruning that Tree Stewards perform … Continue reading
Posted in Casey Trees, Out on a Limb, Tree Care, Uncategorized
Tagged Berryville, Casey Trees Farm, pruning, saplings, staking, Todd Woodfield
A Bad Year for Forests Can Mean Hotter, Drier Climate
By Chelsea Harvey, E&E News Tropical forests suffered some of their worst losses in history last year, according to a new report from the monitoring group Global Forest Watch. About 39 million acres, or 61,000 square miles, of forest cover … Continue reading
Posted in Canopy Loss, Rainforest, Uncategorized, Worldwide
Tagged Chelsea Harvey, E&E News, Forest Climate Analytics, Global Carbon Projects., Global Forest Watch., International Climate and Forest Initiativ. Norway, Michael Wolosin, Nancy Harris, Nature Climate Change, Science. Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen, tropical forest loss, World Resources Institute
A New Threat to Fruit and Other Trees
Local urban foresters and naturalists are concerned about reports that a bug that can damage grapevines as well as fruit and other trees has been found in Winchester, Virginia. The spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) was detected in Frederick County on … Continue reading
Posted in Pests, Uncategorized
Tagged Early Detection Rapid Response, Pests, Spotted lanternfly, Threat to trees, Tree of heaven, Virginia, Winchester
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Arlington’s Tree Canopy Fund Survey
In 2008, the Arlington County Board created the Tree Canopy Fund (TCF) to ensure funds contributed by developers who cannot meet tree planting requirements on their sites will be used to plant trees on other private property. Since then, 1,686 … Continue reading
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The Silent Killer in Your Yard
What’s scarier than bumping into a spider web, a witch, a black cat or a bat in the dark of All Hallows Eve? It’s a zombie plant that harbors rodents and mosquitoes on the ground but morphs into a killer … Continue reading
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Tree Stewards Partner With TD Bank For More Tree Planting
Tree Steward volunteers will be joined by employees from TD Bank on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, at Dora Kelly Nature Park in Alexandria to participate in TD Tree Days, a cooperative effort to plant new trees in local communities in need. Volunteers … Continue reading
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Welcome to TreeStewards.org
Registration for our 2017 training session is now closed. Follow us on Facebook or check back here for details on the next session. The Tree Stewards of Arlington and Alexandria take a love of trees and put it into action by … Continue reading
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TD Bank Makes Long Term Investment in Trees
On October 15, 2013, twenty-five TD Bank employees with the guidance of TreeSteward volunteers planted 30 trees in Tarelton Park, Alexandria, Virginia. But this was only the “initial deposit” of their long term investment. TD Bank works with the Alliance … Continue reading
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