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Tree 'Crew'
Tree work professionals volunteered at the Palmer Arboretum in Woodstock. Left to right: Matt Sheldon, Dennis Panu, Ryan Lussier, Jonathan Roy and Chad Hart. Courtesy photo.
WOODSTOCK --- Fittingly around Arbor Day, Chad Hart, a member of the Palmer Arboretum Board, organizes his fellow arborists and the volunteer tree work experts make the arboretum stronger, healthier and, yes, lovelier.
Bill Brower, chairman of the board, recently thanked Hart and his "tree helpers." He added, "Much appreciation for another incredible work day for the Arboretum. Thanks to you and your colleagues, the Arboretum is getting the professional tree work so necessary to the health of the park and so unaffordable on our budget. It amazed me how much work was accomplished in three hours by six men." Brower said, "Some of the trees in the park are almost 100 years old and over the years many 'volunteer trees 'have sprung up crowding and damaging original plantings or better specimens of native trees. After a few more intensive days like this, the arboretum’s needs should become more manageable care and maintenance."
The crew removed a Catalpa damaged in the October snowstorm, pruned three crabapples and the damaged willow, created a log path through the wet area to connect to the giant poplar and American beech, removed two walnuts. Volunteers also cleared invasive species including euonymus, Japanese barberry, multifloral roses and autumn olives, and bittersweet vines out of the cypresses.
The natural log path created by Matthew Sheldon provides access to a part of the Arboretum that has been newly opened up. Firms involved included: Hart’s Tree Service, Dennis Panu, Arborist, Roy’s Tree Service