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Richie C: WHY, when trees are cut down they are NOT replaced? IF every tree were replaced with a fruit tree, like Apple, Chelsea would be beautiful. OR Cherry trees. NOT sucky, non-shade trees that DIE within 3-5 years.Chelsea is so ugly and so commercial. Trees on our street are dying--NO maintenance.Challenge you to answer.
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Richie C (Registered User)
JR (Registered User)
These shade trees must be protected!!
Andy DeSantis (Registered User)
I am writing this during a break period at the annual conference of the Massachusetts Tree Wardens and Foresters in Sturbridge MA. Ideally the City would plant trees in a tree pits or open spaces with a minimum of 500 cubic feet of well draining nutrient rich soils. Unfortunately in a dense urban setting like the City of Chelsea this not often possible.
During this past summer the City had a firm perform an inventory of public shade trees and trees in public spaces. We have slightly more than 4000 public trees. We also identified just over 400 planting sites. Other parts of this work included a tree risk assessment, a tree management plan and two days of training for the DPW crew. A DCR grant was obtained in the amount of &30k that paid for 75% of the total cost of &40k.
The so called Public Shade Tree Law MGL Chapter 87 does require public hearings to remove public shade trees in excess of 1-1/2 DBH except hazard trees. All trees removed in the last three months were classified as priority one trees likely to fail and impact a target which defined hazard trees.
You can get involved and help the City manage it's Community Urban Forest by asking the City Manager to appoint you to the tree board. There are currently 3 open sites and it would be great to reinvigorate the board.
You can contact me directly at adesantis@chelseama.gov for more info.
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