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Moorestown
Tree Planting & Preservation Committee
Meeting Dates: 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the Second Floor Conference Room of the Moorestown Library, 111 West Second Street. The public is welcome to attend.
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Charter/Goals
Mission Statement: To encourage and assist the community of Moorestown to successfully implement a tree management program by providing information and assistance to the Township Council and Management to sustain and enhance our community forest resource.
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Members
- Bob Eck, Vice-Chairman
- John Gibson, Chairman
- William Hannum
- Jay Hartman, Alternate
- Tami Jones
- Rosemary Nichols
- Robin Sterling
- William Thomas
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| Tree Remembrance Program |
| Sponsored by The Township of Moorestown and The Moorestown Tree Planting and Preservation Committee, The Tree Remembrance Program encourages individuals and groups to make a contribution honoring a special person or event. Inquire here to obtain a Tree Remembrance Brochure detailing this program. |
Why we plant different species |
Often our committee is asked, 'Why do you plant so many different species of trees? We just want big trees along our streets.'
Well, we have many explainations, one can be found if you read Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. '... A generation or more ago, the towns of large areas of the United States lined their streets with the noble elm tree. Now the beauty they hopefully created is threatened with complete distruction as disease sweeps through the elms, carried by a beetle that whould have only limited chance to build up large populations and spread from tree to tree if the elms were only occasional trees in a richly diversified planting...' |
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Publications
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PROGRAMS |
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 Tree Remembrance Program
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Last updated: Thursday, Jul 14, 2005,
11:13AM by Susan Boyce
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