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Measuring the Future
Students from the honors precalculus class at Hyde School in Woodstock measure the Palmer Arboretum last week. Their measurements will be used to create a landscape plan for the natural gem. Below: Witch hazel in bloom at the arboretum. Linda Lemmon photos.
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
WOODSTOCK --- With more than a little help from volunteers from all corners, the Palmer Arboretum is spreading its branches.
Last week members of Sarah Robison's honors precalculus class at Hyde-Woodstock, spent the afternoon at the arboretum, using their math skills to help get down on paper accurate measurements throughout the arboretum. Students with long tape measures stretched from foot bridges to the base of trees, from the boundaries to trees, from benches to trees.
Bill Brower, chairman of the arboretum's board, said students from Hyde are often helping at the arboretum. "We have a tremendous relationship with Hyde," he said.
He said the students' measurements will be used by Christine Schwab, a UConn landscape architect.
Schwab is volunteering her time and talent to design a plan that will "carry the arboretum into the future," Brower said.
Also on the volunteer front , at the end of the month, a group of arborists from all around Connecticut will do some work at the arboretum.
Volunteers from the Woodstock Area Garden Club also help out, as do all the board members including Chad Hart, an arborist.
Brower said the arboretum is making progress, slowly but surely. The property, just behind Palmer Hall on Rt. 169, was donated by Minnie Palmer Dean in 1915. Originally it was 5 acres and it was designed to be a walkway to Roseland, but the walkway was never done. The arboretum is currently just under 2 acres.
In the 1970s and 1980s the arboretum was more like a jungle.
This year, Brower said, the "spring area" is next on the list for leaving the "jungle." The group has started cleaning out the spring area and the work will continue in earnest this year.
caption:
Measuring the Future
Students from the honors precalculus class at Hyde School in Woodstock measure the Palmer Arboretum last week. Their measurements will be used to create a landscape plan for the natural gem. Below: Witch hazel in bloom at the arboretum. Linda Lemmon photos.
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
WOODSTOCK --- With more than a little help from volunteers from all corners, the Palmer Arboretum is spreading its branches.
Last week members of Sarah Robison's honors precalculus class at Hyde-Woodstock, spent the afternoon at the arboretum, using their math skills to help get down on paper accurate measurements throughout the arboretum. Students with long tape measures stretched from foot bridges to the base of trees, from the boundaries to trees, from benches to trees.
Bill Brower, chairman of the arboretum's board, said students from Hyde are often helping at the arboretum. "We have a tremendous relationship with Hyde," he said.
He said the students' measurements will be used by Christine Schwab, a UConn landscape architect.
Schwab is volunteering her time and talent to design a plan that will "carry the arboretum into the future," Brower said.
Also on the volunteer front , at the end of the month, a group of arborists from all around Connecticut will do some work at the arboretum.
Volunteers from the Woodstock Area Garden Club also help out, as do all the board members including Chad Hart, an arborist.
Brower said the arboretum is making progress, slowly but surely. The property, just behind Palmer Hall on Rt. 169, was donated by Minnie Palmer Dean in 1915. Originally it was 5 acres and it was designed to be a walkway to Roseland, but the walkway was never done. The arboretum is currently just under 2 acres.
In the 1970s and 1980s the arboretum was more like a jungle.
This year, Brower said, the "spring area" is next on the list for leaving the "jungle." The group has started cleaning out the spring area and the work will continue in earnest this year.