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Maumee volunteers unveil street tree planting design to restore canopy
Summary
Volunteers presented a citywide street tree planting design recommending species-by-block scoring and a plan to plant roughly 2,000 trees per year to recover a decades-long canopy loss.
Bill Burry, a volunteer on Maumee’s Tree and Environmental commissions, told Maumee City Council on Dec. 16 that the city has lost roughly 30% of its tree canopy over the past 25 years and needs a structured planting approach to restore it.
Burry said volunteers surveyed every street in Maumee using the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry’s street tree planting design program and scored tree lawns on a 0–20 scale based on factors such as vegetation, soil probe depth, compaction, speed limits, lanes, parking, block length, tree lawn size, overhead electric and curbing or sidewalks. Blocks rated 0–8 were scored as…
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