“you can’t always get what you want: urban forest species diversity” by nancy buley, j. frank...
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want:Seeking and Achieving Urban Forest Species Diversity
Matthew Stephens
Director of Street Tree Planting
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Elizabeth Elbel
Neighborhood Trees Specialist
ISA Certified Arborist
Friends of Trees
Portland, Oregon
Nancy Buley
Director of Communications
J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co.
Boring, Oregon
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Trees from Seed to City
• Many stakeholders
• Many variables
• Complicated supply chain
• Environmental challenges
• Risky business
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From glut to shortage
• Unusual species more rare
• Contractors will ask for subs
• Know your suppliers
• Visit nurseries
• Be creative!
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Trees by the million
So where’s the diversity?
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Getting what you want will require planning, open communication and creative growing agreements with trusted nursery partners.
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Timeline from tissue culture plantlet. to the street in Old City Philadelphia:
Nearly a decade.
Time, time, time – not on our side.
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Getting what you want will require planning, open communication and creative growing agreements with trusted nursery partners.
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Friends of Trees
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Urban Canopy Project Partnerships driving program growth
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Cultivating Relationships
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Where do we grow from here?
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Permitted Trees
Contract Trees
Street tree planting in NYC
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• 3 Nurseries supply all street trees
• 9 year tree growing contracts
• All trees get tagged by NYC Parks
• Be an educated consumer and know
where your trees come from
• Increased species availability for
planting
• 22 Families
• 41 Genera
• 24 species of Quercus
• 12 Cultivars of Ulmus
• 10 Cultivars of Tilia
• Increased quality and consistency of
tree selection and stock
• Contracts are a planning tool
Tree Procurement Contracts
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Species Prescriptions
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You just might findYou get what you need
THANK YOU!