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Sustainability board hears city forester on tree inventory, planting strategy and protection limits
Summary
Oshkosh City forester Travis Dirks told the Sustainability Advisory Board the city has roughly "10,000 trees or so," has applied for a grant to update its inventory, and recommended soil improvements during street reconstruction over attempting costly in-place tree protection.
Travis Dirks, city forester and landscape operations manager, told the Sustainability Advisory Board on July 1 that Oshkosh has "roughly, there's probably around 10,000 trees or so," and that the parks department recently applied for a grant to update the city's tree inventory. The inventory, he said, would record species, size, health and location to guide future plantings and maintenance.
Board members pressed Dirks on species diversity, volunteer support and how the city handles terrace plantings. Dirks said the city's canopy has been about 30% maple and staff are reducing maple plantings while adding species such as tulip tree, American hornbeam and seedless varieties of Kentucky coffee tree. He said the recent fundraiser with…
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