Viburnum Leaf Beetle has now been found at the Chicago Botanic Garden. It’s also been found in other parts of the Chicago metro area including Cook and DuPage County since 2009. It seems like tree varieties such as Arrowwood, Possum-haw and Cranberrybush are becoming most susceptible to this threat. This pest overwinters as eggs…
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Many boxwoods are still hurting from the harsh winter, even though it is June. These boxwoods live in West Harrison, NY with their proud owners. They are receiving TLC from SavATree and should look better soon.”
DetailsToday I was proud to be part of the launch of the Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition. The Coalition is a voluntary alliance of agencies, NGOs, and professional associations supporting a vision for a connected green infrastructure network in the Greater Baltimore region. The Coalition will have four focus areas: resilience; biodiversity; equity; and, discovery. …
DetailsI had a great time Friday night at the 17th Annual Treasure the Chesapeake Celebration in Annapolis. The event is a fundraiser to support the work of the Chesapeake Bay Trust. The Chesapeake Bay Trust is a nonprofit grant-making organization dedicated to improving the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers through environmental education, community…
DetailsLast week the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) had its spring meeting. Discussion focused on the theory of urban heterogeneity. If that sounds like it may be confusing, we got a great example (shown below) of how the patchy distribution of ash trees in Baltimore and the patchy invasion of emerald ash borer may cause unequally…
DetailsThe Chesapeake Stormwater Network is a network of nearly 7,000 stormwater professionals, primarily, but not exclusively, within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. They do a lot of great things – one of them is helping to clean up urban stormwater with BUBBA. No, BUBBA is not my fun-loving uncle. It is an acronym for Best Urban BMP in…
DetailsThere are Urban Waters Federal Partnerships in 19 U.S. cities. These partnerships convene 14 agencies of the federal family and connect them to state, local, and NGO partners to develop place-based solutions to urban water quality problems. Last year the national network of partnerships reached out to a variety of NGOs to sign…
DetailsI’ve been fortunate to help care for some very special trees. When I worked for Maryland DNR, I helped care for the Wye Oak in Wye Mills, MD, which stood for decades as the National Champion white oak (the largest known white oak in the US). I was also around when that grand tree came…
DetailsI drive, walk, or run by this tree just about every day. It has no bark most of the way around the base, and the wood beneath is significantly decayed. It looks like it could fall down any minute – right? I took the picture of the tree from the roadway. It is a divided…
DetailsLast fall, we talked about a paper we collaborated on with Michael Battaglia of Michigan Tech Research Institute, Geoff Buckley of Ohio University, and Morgan Grove of U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station Baltimore Urban Field Station. The paper considered two East Baltimore neighborhoods that have potential for enhanced tree canopy but have social barriers…
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