Comments on: The Street Tree Considered

By: nancy chambers

nancy chambers — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:41:30 +0000

Can I use one of your images of a street tree scene for my upcoming newsletter from the Glass Garden, a non-profit botanic garden/horticultural therapy program in the middle of new york city. The image is the one with the bicycle. It’s from Rob Goodspeed’s b;og, “The Street Tree Considered”, posted 7/26/07, filed under District of Columbia, Street Trees, Urban Development

By: Dave "DG-rad"

Dave "DG-rad" — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:34:38 +0000

Hey there–what a great piece. I’ve linked to it from my blog on Anacostia, which you should definitely check out at http://www.anacostianow.blogspot.com

By: Hillary

Hillary — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:41:58 +0000

Trees in Detroit are often liabilities because the city does nothing to maintain them. The only trees that are not overgrown are dead.

Here is an image of my favorite Detroit trees. At one time, they were in the back yard of a house near the incinerator.

http://defcode.com/wiki/images/thumb/3/3b/Dscf4735.jpg/800px-Dscf4735.jpg

By: DC1974

DC1974 — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:09:12 +0000

As a Chicagoan, I always thought that Chicagoans cared most about our trees. We certainly would not allow things like powerlines to cut through them. The non-buried powerlines or at least lines not hidden in alleys — has always been shocking to me. It strikes me as a very southern (read: corner cutting, anti-regulation) way of handling the situation. There are parts of the Chicagoland area that have had undergrounded powerlines since the 19th century! And we did a much better job of not just planting the trees and then letting them sit and die of thirst.

Metro-DC does have a handle on planting forests, though. Perhaps that’s just the way the growing season works, but I’m always amazed at the wilderness effect of the area. Chicago wasn’t quite so “wild” unless it was specifically a forest-preserve. One would assume though that there were trees to begin with (like a greenway). But look at photos of Arlington or McLean in the 50s — which appear to have been developed in a forest, now — and you realize that much of that land was clear cut.

By: Laurence Aurbach

Laurence Aurbach — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:11:17 +0000

Sweet post! Washingtonians are very attached to their trees, and rightfully so. Melanie Choukas-Bradley's book City of Trees is a classic on the subject and in this 2004 article she says she's working on a revision. Also, this American Forests article from 2001 gives a fun review of D.C.'s "favorite trees."