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Capitol Commission outlines phased landscape plan; executive director to return with fall tree-planting and removal proposal
Summary
The Michigan State Capitol Commission reviewed a revised landscape master plan and a phased approach to tree removals and replacement plantings. Executive Director Rob Blackshaw said he will return with a more limited fall planting and removal plan after gathering commissioner input; a tribal citizen urged use of Michigan native species.
The Michigan State Capitol Commission discussed a phased update to the Capitol grounds landscape plan on April 7, with Executive Director Rob Blackshaw recommending a cautious, multi-year approach to tree removals and replacement plantings.
Blackshaw said the commission’s folders included three drawings: a landscape master phasing plan, a planting plan and a tree-removal plan that Beckett and Rader, the commission’s landscape architect, revised after the addition of Heritage Hall and other recent changes to the grounds. The master plan, he said, hews toward an historic layout of perimeter tree alleys and fewer interior trees ‘‘by attrition’’ while…
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