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Cambridge Tree Project, East Cambridge Planning Committee, East End House, Cambridge Community Development, Concilio Hispano, Cambridge Conservation Commission, and Department of Urban Forestry invite you to a

Tree Walk of
East Cambridge
Sat. May 9
Demonstration at 9 a.m.; Walk 10-12 a.m.
Celebration of Silva Park 1-3 p.m.

with Larry Acosta, Cambridge City Arborist, our Urban Forester. If you cannot make a walk in your neighborhood, you are welcome to join other walks. Walks will occur on Saturdays listed below and will include neighborhood tree care demonstration at 9 a.m. and a tree identification and common problem analysis walk 10-12 a.m.

Sat. May 30  East: Cambridge St. at Sciarappa St.
Sat. June 13  North: Massachusetts Ave
Sat. June 21  Magazine Beach with MDC Ranger Russ Geer
Along Charles River towards Weeks Bridge
Sat. Sept 19  Mid Cambridge
Sat. Sept. 26  Porter Square and Area 9
Sat. Oct.3  Riverside
Sat. Oct. 24  To be determined

Our goals are to teach you to 1.) provide basic care for trees and identify “green teams” around the city who will help care for trees; and, 2.) identify some common trees and tree problems so you can help us be the eyes and ears for our city’s trees. For information, to register for a walk, or to join a green team to care for our street trees or a tree inventory team or to help develop policies and plans to protect and maintain our trees in Cambridge, call 547-1413 or fax 876-8991 or email. Please don’t forget to give us your name, address, telephone number, email if you have it, and interests. Thanks!

2. Please Post: To Artists, Sculptors who work with wood
Select wood for your works of art
Wed. June3 from 9:30-10:30 a.m.

After the terrible loss of trees from the blizzard last year, Mount Auburn Cemetery, in conjunction with the Cambridge Tree Project cooperated to set up a program to transform the sorrow from this terrible loss into works of beauty. Mount Auburn invites you to choose from the branches and wood in exchange for a small donation to Cambridge Tree Project. This wood is not appropriate for milling or most furniture making.

We will be having selection sessions on the first Wednesdays of the month from 9:30-10:30 a.m. In return we will have an exhibit of the works of art sometime next fall or winter and we just ask that 20% of what you sell the item you make for, goes to pay for the replanting of trees. Just ask the purchaser to make out two checks: one 80% to you and one 20 % to Cambridge Tree Project, which will be used to replant new trees and maintain old ones.

We will hold the exhibit with the help of some local gallery, we will publicize it and we will photograph the collection in memory of your work in helping us all transform sadness into beauty. If for some reason your work doesn’t sell, you are of course not obligated to contribute anything, but we hope you will encourage others to contribute to the replanting of trees and the preservation of our urban forest by contributing to the Cambridge Tree Project.

If you are interested in selecting wood, please 1. Send your name, address, telephone number, and fax and email if you have it to Cambridge Tree Project. 2. Please tell us how you imagine you might use the wood. 3. We would also like to receive a brief resume of the work you have done. Karen Klein is the manager of this program. Thanks.

3. Sat. May 30 Sennott Park 1-5 Area 4 Community Fair. Announcement of Area 4 Coalition trees and where they will be planted. A map of the 20 new trees being planted in Area 4 will be available. Chip Greenidge will announce this. Information on tree planting, care and where to get more information, plus applications for trees through the Committee on Public Planting will be available. There may still be a few trees available for Area 4 residents through a donation of the Area 4 Coalition UDAG grant. The rest of us may pay $140 for trees.

4. Mitch Ryerson has now a second tree which he and students from the High School have carved into a beautiful chair at Fresh Pond Reservation. The first chair was seen by participants during the Agassiz Tree Walk.

5. Chris Dewart is identifying trees with the help of research by Elena Saporta and David Szlag. He is researching the tree identification system done at Arnold Arboretum, Mount Auburn Cemetery and Brooklyn Botanical Garden and then to begin a tree identification program using monies from the Cambridge Tree Project grant to provide labels.

6. Keren Scholmy, Karen Carmean and others have been doing research on model tree ordinances, regulations and policies, and are working with arborist Larry Acosta to identify areas for development, based on a survey done earlier. If you are interested in looking at some of these examples, contact Karen Carmean at 547-1413. We plan to make these available on a web site. Construction guidelines have been developed. A Basal Area Tree Replacement Policy has been drafted:
Trees will be replaced by determining the number of 2 1/2” diameter trees which would fit in the area (at ground level) of the trunk of the tree to be replaced.
Where ignorance, accident, negligence and repeated acts are indicated, additional replacements or fines may be required. Definitions and penalties will be