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color:#1F497D'>Hi, we’re very interested in trying more native species,
but there’s really nothing “native” to highway medians.
It’s an extremely inhospitable environment and our best performers have
been exotic species where the risk of spread is low because we choose a
non-seeding cultivar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>We have had some success with some blue fescues and grasses
which again are not native but tough. On some of the wider medians and
slower streets we have successfully used a few native species. Many of
the native species are very difficult to find from a reliable commercial
source.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Ian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Meagher, Michael
[mailto:Michael.Meagher@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 01, 2010 11:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Canadian Urban Forest Network<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Ian Wilson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [CANUFNET] trees on high speed right-of-ways<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Mr.. Wilson: Why not try native species, such as sagebrush,
antelope brush OR cactus? Maybe also Potentilla species?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:blue'>All should be well suited climatically, remain small, thus no major
pruning in future, not generate a safety issue re crashing cars, require less
water and be long lived. Should be cheaper to replace, also.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>They may need maintenance to remove flying/lodged plastic bags and
cups, but that should be faster (cheaper) than water truck spraying and
pruning.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>M. Meagher, R.P.F. (Ret.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Victoria, BC.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> canufnet-bounces@list.web.net
[mailto:canufnet-bounces@list.web.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ian Wilson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 22, 2010 8:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Canadian Urban Forest Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CANUFNET] trees on high speed right-of-ways</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Martha,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>We have some medians on Highway 97 in Kelowna, where the posted
speeds reach 80 km/hr (and many people drive 100 km/hr). These were
originally planted in 1998. At the time, the transportation engineers
originally objected to the trees in the centre median as possible hazards,
however our parks manager at the time pointed out that it would be preferable
for a vehicle to hit these trees rather than to drive into on-coming traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>The medians are not very wide – they are only the width of
a lane of traffic (about 4.2 metres I think). They have a slightly sloped
brick apron around the edges, with a planting strip in the middle, planted with
trees shrubs and irrigation. If you have the space, I would definitely
recommend going wider because the narrow width causes some issues with sand,
salt, and worker safety. We are now in the process of renovating some of
our highway medians to include safety curbs as you mentioned, we are converting
the spray irrigation to drip (spray irrigation is higher maintenance and
creates runoff onto the road), and we are also going to construct a flat spot
at the end of each median where a maintenance vehicle can park.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Many of our medians have shrub roses which seem to do fine with
the salts and look good but they catch all the flying garbage. We are
replacing the roses with more xeriscape type plants such as low growing
fescues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>We have found species selection to be quite challenging due to
road salts and constant wind due to traffic which seems to dry out the leaves
in the heat of summer. Norway maple is quite tolerant of the salts but
suffers from leaf scorch in late summer. Red oak and Austrian pine
generally do pretty well. London plane does well except that the salt
spray tends to kill the buds on the lower portion of the tree and you get a lot
of ‘witches brooms’ forming. We’re going to try some
elms. Something really tough and weedy like “Tree of Heaven”
might even be worth trying if you can plant males that don’t go to seed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>We were concerned that the London planes would get too large but
because of the very limited soil volume they have only reached about an 8 inch
caliper and now grow very slowly. The good news is they require very
little pruning and don’t create much of a hazard for vehicles that run
them over, but in the long term they may start to decline due to the limited
soil volume. Theoretically they may be able to access some additional
native soils through the bottom of the planter but they are probably poor
quality and compacted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Good luck,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ian <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#B71234'>Ian Wilson</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>, Park Services Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>TEL 250 469-8842 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>FAX<b> </b>250 862-3335<br>
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<b>City of Kelowna</b> 1359 KLO road, Kelowna, BC V1W 3N8 </span><b><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
canufnet-bounces@list.web.net [mailto:canufnet-bounces@list.web.net] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Barwinsky, Martha<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> canufnet@list.web.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CANUFNET] trees on high speed right-of-ways<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
have some questions for city arborists/foresters related to trees in centre
medians in higher speed zones:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1.
Does anyone have a situation with trees, especially mature trees, currently
growing on centre medians of higher speed right-of-ways i.e. 80 km/hr? If so,
how do you manage this with transportation engineers, i.e. that their view is
the trees are a hazard to driver safety?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2.
Are you planting in these centre medians provided that the median is a certain
width, safety curbs are constructed, and/or the trees are in raised planters,
etc – barring concerns with de-icing salt impact on tree health? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>3.
Do you have guidelines in place in cooperation with transportation in that you
do or do not plant trees in these centre medians?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks
in advance for your feedback!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:green'>Martha Barwinsky</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:green'>City Forester</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:green'>City of Winnipeg</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:green'>105-1155 Pacific Ave</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:green'>Winnipeg, MB R3E 3P1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:green'>ph: (204) 986-3701</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:green'>fax: (204) 986-3860</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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