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Martinez John Moore Jennifer Lee Daniel

Terra forming is becoming a lost art, start with flax grass and work up.

Hemp is a phytoremediation type plant and grows much quicker than trees.

The most important thing is to get started and put a lot more effort in than we have been.

Thomas Matthew Johnson Edward Walker Robert

I disagree there isn't a way to retrofit dense urban areas with street trees. Just remove street parking. Cities aren't for car ownership. Cars out. Trees in.

id like to know why we stopped planting trees that can provide food and beauty

Street trees are made of trees, who am I to judge these leaves

Anything but fruit bearing trees, god forbid the government actually do something to help it's citizens..... Just a reminder the speaker and pretty much every single attendee lives off you tax dollars, is unelected and provides zero measurable value to society....

I wonder if trees planted in isolated pits fare worse because they are not connected to their neighbors via the mycorrhizal network like what naturally occurs in the forest? Do trees get "lonely" or }depressed" if they lack this connection to their neighbors via the mycorrhizal network?

Wow this is great knowledge. I'd love to see follow up images from 2024 see how these fast growing Poplars have grown over the past 3 years. I have been building beaver dam analogs and watched several poplar and willow species rapidly accumulate biomass

better at 1.5x play back speed

A good talk. The one point I would disagree with, in part, is about using non-native trees. Sorry, but time and time again, we've seen non-native trees "escape" into the wilds to cause all sorts of ecological problems. It's foolishness, to put it mildly, for us to suggest planting trees to accomplish one ecological goal, a good thing, only for that to lead to significant ecological damage down the road. The Callery Pear is just one example of this. The problem isn't that a non-native tree is running free, but that they take up space in the food web of the ecosystem without providing any benefit to the food web of the ecosystem. I would point to Dr. Doug Tallamy's exemplary work on documenting the negative impact non-native tree species have had in this regard. It's not always that the trees in question are 'invasive', because there are other issues at play here. I do understand the problem of getting trees to survive in the harsh urban environment. However, if you watch the presentation closely, it seems like 90% of the problems causing mortality in tree plantings is due to how they are planted, not that native species are somehow unable to survive. The "tree pit", a cubic yard of dirt surrounded by pavement, spells certain death for most every tree species out there, especially the ones you want to grow tall and provide shade. The answer to that isn't to hunt for some rare non-native species that can live there, but to redesign the 'tree pit' and consider if, maybe, how we are treating the urban forestry is a lot like those wrought iron tree guards -- an anachronistic practice that's long since lost value. As noted, creating a monoculture of any one tree, whether it's a non-native like the Norway Maple, or a native like the American Elm, leads to problems more often than not. And, yes, creating a complex planting with multiple species is a common-sense solution. I would encourage people to take that one step further and understand that there's more to the local ecosystem than just providing people with shady streets that make for a pretty picture. All the trees in the world don't amount to much if they aren't providing food and shelter for the pollinators that keep our ecosystem operating.

This was so interesting

❤. Pease and blessings.

Matthew from Matawan shade tree

Please repeat the organization that Lisa is associated with -- to do tree plantings in particular.

Mulch volcanoes! The worst. Also young tree trading the single most unappreciated must-do for any municipality.