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Commission plans BioBlitz, Arbor Day plantings, website updates and coordination with local partners
Summary
Commissioners discussed a planned citizen-science BioBlitz/tree inventory event, an Arbor Day planting, a tree‑bank planting partnership, and updating the commission’s web page and a service portal; event dates were discussed but the transcript records conflicting dates and points listeners to the city's Facebook event for confirmation.
The commission discussed outreach and events that would support tree inventory, volunteer plantings and public engagement.
Gene described a planned BioBlitz / partial tree-inventory citizen‑science event coordinated with the East Side library and hosted as a public walk to collect street-tree photos using iNaturalist. The event will include volunteers and experts (the transcript names potential partners including Rural Action, Athens Conservancy and Voinovich School) and the commission discussed using the collected data with the city’s GIS. Commissioners said the library had posted a Facebook event;…
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