Ellen drew a picture of Main Street lined with trees. After everyone requested their own clear zones, the only space left for planting was a small blob only big enough for a bush. How could this happen? Everyone in the town loved trees. Everyone had said yes to the trees! And yet, these were the trees that no one planted.
The 20-member VT Urban & Community Advisory Council is currently seeking an individual to fill a "volunteer representative" seat to join the group to guide and support the Urban & Community Forestry Program and its staff.
In early June, UVM forestry students teamed up with the VT Urban & Community Forestry Program to plant 16 new trees at the Castleton Public Library through our Check Out Forestry program.
Arriving at the Montpelier Tree Nursery one drizzly morning in early May, I carried a shovel, some pruning shears, garbage bags, and a giant ball of twine. The task at hand was not to plant trees, but to un-plant them.
