Hi Oles,
I thought you would be interested in this email from Jim Fisher, St. Olaf's esteemed Grounds Manger. In it, he reports the progress we are making in repopulating the site of the Science Complex with native trees to replace those that were removed to make way for the building, many of them non-native species.
David Anderson
Here's Jim's email:
Small factoid regarding trees at New Science site. By the time I leave work today we will have replaced 81 of the 140 trees marked for removal on the original Barr drawing. This includes the Arborvitae I put in before the project began, the oaks, maples, elms and ironwoods spaded in last fall and the larches I am currently installing. Off the top of my head I cannot say how many of the 140 trees removed were "non-native" but all of the replacements fall in the native category. I have an additional 50 aspen coming in sometime next week so by the end of the month we should be closing the gap between loss of trees on the disturbed site and replacement. My count of new trees in the area does not include the arborvitae I installed in the Allens backyard to screen the road.
