Tree hosts: how to care for your new “baby”
Sustainable Saratoga’s Urban Forestry Project released the following guidelines for tree hosts that received trees as part of our Tree Toga plantings on April 26. We thought we would share these tree care tips with everyone. For questions on care, please contact trees@sustainablesaratoga.org.
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Save Saratoga’s elms
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Our first defense is to remove and dispose of sick and dead elms, including those on City and private property.
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Best to do that by mid-April 2014, before the elm bark beetles emerge and spread the fungus to healthy elms.
Urban forest master plan goes public
Saratoga’s first-ever Urban Forest Master Plan (draft) now available to public on City’s website
Sustainable Saratoga inventory provides the foundation for City’s planning efforts.
Public hearing at City Council meeting on May 21, 6:30 PM, in the council chambers.
City Council received the draft Urban Forest Master Plan last week
Reader’s View: West Side project needs improvement
The planned development of the former Ellsworth Ice Cream Co. factory site on the west side of Saratoga Springs is a good urban infill project that Sustainable Saratoga can support, although we wish it would contain some affordable units.
The project will bring more residents to the downtown
What’s eating my trees?
Something is eating Trees all around town. What’s going on?
Spring has sprung, and people in some neighborhoods in and around Saratoga Springs are noticing dark, hairy caterpillars chewing on the leaves of their trees. What we are seeing locally is part of a