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City policy will prioritize removal of aging silver maples, Norways, Siberian elm and nonfruiting pears in right-of-way
Summary
Kalamazoo Department of Public Services is implementing an internal hazardous-tree removal policy targeting several overplanted species; the policy calls for removal when those trees become hazardous and for two-for-one replacement with approved species.
Kalamazoo — The Department of Public Services has implemented an internal hazardous-tree removal policy that will prioritize the removal of several overplanted, failure-prone species from city right-of-ways and replace removed trees with two new trees from the city’s approved list.
Thomas Twohurst, a committee member who presented the tree-committee update, said the department identified silver maple, Norway maple, Siberian elm, and nonfruiting ornamental pears (including Callery pear cultivars) as species that have caused…
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