Tag: trees
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Urban Tree Benefits
This weekend I planted my third tree, but the first in the boulevard (space between the street and the sidewalk). I had been waiting to get this done, with busy schedules and a summer heat wave delaying the project. As a city planner I was well aware of boulevard or street tree programs which provided…
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Sustainable Christmas Tree Options
Last weekend some friends sent snaps of them cutting down their Christmas tree from a nearby tree farm. It brought back memories of the one and only time I convinced my husband we should cut our own Christmas tree down. In the years that followed I went to the closest hardware store to buy a…
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The Dust Bowl
There is still a generation living that can recall the hard times brought on by the Dust Bowl. I think about how my grandparents, in their late 90’s now, would have been just teenagers at that time. I recall reading Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck trying to imagine a different Nebraska than the one…
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The Planning Lady 