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Monday September 08, 2008, 8:00 AM
Please check out this blog by Carole Ogram(Wenonah) for more One hard working group is the Wenonah Shade Tree Commission. Right now, we share a problem with surrounding communities -- Left unchecked, this disease can spread and decimate the After speaking to Greg Shast about the problem, Our Shade Tree Commission has done the leg work and identified the Take a walk on the street or in our lovely conservation area. Coming soon....new information ....stay tuned Our beloved Train Station Restoration, almost done!!!! Our trails......recent sighting of rare albino Red Tail Hawk on South West Ave.....
Team Work Wenonah! Work Together!
For Now
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Wenonah is lucky to have so many volunteers working year round
to make this such a great place to live.
Greg Shast, Charlie Miller, Rob Raymond, Greg Hack and Ted Astorga
are the current members who have continued a tradition that has
earned Wenonah the distinction of an even dozen years on the
Arbor Day Foundation "Tree City USA" list.
The Shade Tree Commission is responsible for the trees that
are on borough property. The members do a yearly assessment
of the trees in town to identify, among other things, trees that may
be diseased, unsafe or at risk. They work to get bids from contractors
to take down dead and diseased trees and in the spring, they plant
new trees as replacements for those that have been lost.
Bacterial Leaf Scorch.
This picture, from the Rutgers Cooperative Extension,
shows infected leaves on Red Oak, our state tree.
majority of trees in a residential area. There is no cure for this
blight that is spread by leaf hoppers and other insects,
but there are ways to halt the spread of the disease.
I Googled some info and found that the best way to manage the problem is by good tree maintenance. Very diseased trees must be taken down and trees
that are just beginning to show signs of infection need to be pruned
of infected branches. Some towns have even taken down trees that
surround the most diseased trees in order to nip it in the bud (so to speak.)
trees that need to be addressed. Hopefully, Council can provide the
funding needed to complete the work. Rutgers Coop has stated
that municipalities must spend the money now or risk spending much more,
at a later date, to take down dozens of unsafe dead trees, not to mention
the harm to the aesthetics of our beautiful leafy tree lined streets.
Even with costly new plantings, it would take years to achieve what
we have now in our Tree City
Enjoy those trees now, while you can...so long!
