[CANUFNET] City of Toronto needs help to preserve historic urban tree

[james urban]

Debra
I forwarded your post to some of my Landscape Architect colleagues in Toronto.  Also attached is a book I highly recommend for managing ancient trees.  I attended a seminar in the UK run by the one of authors of this book.  Keeping suckers and lower branches is a very critical early step in managing trees of this age.  I am managing a large red oak down here in Maryland, US and the tree does sucker on old wood quite well.
Good luck
Jim Urban, ISA FASLA
jimtree123 at gmail.com


> On Nov 16, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Debra Huron via CANUFNET <canufnet at list.web.net> wrote:
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> The City of Toronto wants to buy a piece of private property where a beautiful red oak tree has been growing for a century or more, and to turn the property into a park, open to all.
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> The fundraising effort for this began in 2019 but slowed considerably when the invisible virus appeared back in March 2020.
> 
> Now, the City of Toronto is urging people to help make its fundraising effort successful.  If you donate to the tree's preservation, you can give your donation as a holiday gift to loved ones and friends...no carbon footprint is associated with such a purchase. In fact, you acquire a karmic carbon bonus by doing your part to keep this massive tree safe from human predation. 
> 
> Learn more here https://www.toronto.ca/business-economy/partnerships-sponsorships-donations/donate/heritage-red-oak-tree/ <https://www.toronto.ca/business-economy/partnerships-sponsorships-donations/donate/heritage-red-oak-tree/>
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> Debra Isabel Huron
> 
> If the unbearable were not weightless,
> we might yet buckle under the grief
> of what hasn't changed yet.
> --Jane Hirshfield  <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-hirshfield>
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> Phone: 613 859-8049 
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