The Environmental Group
TREES

In addition to their important role in maintaining our water supply (see WATER), trees are a significant part of the cultural heritage and outstanding scenery that attract visitors and new residents to our area. Conserving trees, while simultaneously assimilating new residents and business, is a challenge. When adhered to by developers, state and local regulations protecting soil, streams, and mountains mitigate tree loss by limiting removal and requiring replacement. Still, considerable tree loss is inevitable as development and roadways expand.

Individual landowners also contribute, wittingly or unwittingly, to tree loss. So our programs aim to heighten public awareness of the aesthetic, ecological, and economic value of trees regardless of location – business park, homestead, school yard, church ground, or other. To this end, the Environmental Group’s focus is on:

• Heritage Trees – identification of very old and/or large trees
• Saving the Hemlocks – control of the Woolly Adelgid parasite
• Treescaping – promotion of trees in our landscape

Memorial Trees at SNCA

Planting a tree is a meaningful way to remember someone or an event.