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Community Forestry
 Tree Resources Plan - 7 pages, 52 Kb
Town of Middlesex
Tree Resources Plan
2000 – 2005
Prepared By:
Middlesex Conservation Commission
Community Forest Committee
Chair, Mike Patterson (Tree Warden)
For the
Middlesex Select Board
Last Revised
November 14, 2005
Table of Contents
1. Plan Goal
2. Plan Objectives
3. Selected and Designated Sites
3.1. Middlesex Center Cemetery Site
3.1.1. General Location and Site Description
3.1.1.1. Location Map
3.1.1.2. Elevation
3.1.1.3. Slope
3.1.1.4. Aspect
3.1.1.5. Exposure / Climate
3.1.1.6. Soils
3.1.2. Detailed Inventory
3.1.2.1. Types and Numbers of Species
3.1.2.2. Age of Species
3.1.2.3. Size of Species
3.1.2.4. Conditions and Deficiencies
3.1.3. Prescribed Treatments / Tasks
3.1.3.1. Maintenance
3.1.3.2. Removal and Replacement
3.2. Morse Property Site
3.2.1. General Location and Site Description
3.2.1.1. Location Map
3.2.1.2. Elevation
3.2.1.3. Slope
3.2.1.4. Aspect
3.2.1.5. Exposure / Climate
3.2.1.6. Soils
3.2.2. Detailed Inventory
3.2.2.1. Types and Numbers of Species
3.2.2.2. Age of Species
3.2.2.3. Size of Species
3.2.2.4. Conditions and Deficiencies
3.2.3. Prescribed Treatments / Tasks
3.2.3.1. Maintenance
3.2.3.2. Removal and Replacement
3.3. Rumney School Site
3.3.1. General Location and Site Description
3.3.1.1. Location Map
3.3.1.2. Elevation
3.3.1.3. Slope
3.3.1.4. Aspect
3.3.1.5. Exposure / Climate
3.3.1.6. Soils
3.3.2. Detailed Inventory
3.3.2.1. Types and Numbers of Species
3.3.2.2. Age of Species
3.3.2.3. Size of Species
3.3.2.4. Conditions and Deficiencies
3.3.3. Prescribed Treatments / Tasks
3.3.3.1. Maintenance
3.3.3.2. Removal and Replacement
3.4. Carr Cemetery Site
3.4.1. General Location and Site Description
3.4.1.1. Location Map
3.4.1.2. Elevation
3.4.1.3. Slope
3.4.1.4. Aspect
3.4.1.5. Exposure / Climate
3.4.1.6. Soils
3.4.2. Detailed Inventory
3.4.2.1. Types and Numbers of Species
3.4.2.2. Age of Species
3.4.2.3. Size of Species
3.4.2.4. Conditions and Deficiencies
3.4.3. Prescribed Treatments / Tasks
3.4.3.1. Maintenance
3.4.3.2. Removal and Replacement
3.5. Village Cemetery Site
3.5.1. General Location and Site Description
3.5.1.1. Location Map
3.5.1.2. Elevation
3.5.1.3. Slope
3.5.1.4. Aspect
3.5.1.5. Exposure / Climate
3.5.1.6. Soils
3.5.2. Detailed Inventory
3.5.2.1. Types and Numbers of Species
3.5.2.2. Age of Species
3.5.2.3. Size of Species
3.5.2.4. Conditions and Deficiencies
3.5.3. Prescribed Treatments / Tasks
3.5.3.1. Maintenance
3.5.3.2. Removal and Replacement
4. Implementation Plan
4.1. Maintenance Schedule and Removal / Replacement Plan
4.2. Program Implementation
4.2.1. Tree Warden
4.2.2. Conservation Commission
4.3. Funding
4.3.1. Town
4.3.2. Grant and other source
Plan Goal
To provide healthy and aesthetically pleasing trees in the Town of Middlesex at the designated sites to be viewed and to be enjoyed by Town residents and to enhance the community’s sense of place.
Plan Objectives
• To increase awareness of tree resources and benefits in the Town of Middlesex.
• To increase the Town’s capacity to properly care for its existing tree resources.
• To expand the tree resources in Town at selected and designated sites.
• To prepare a site inventory at the selected and designated sites.
• To dedicate the Ed Weed tree every Arbor Day (May 2nd).
Middlesex Center Cemetery Site
General Location and Site Description
Location Map
The Middlesex Center Cemetery is located adjacent to the cemetery along Center Road about two miles from the I-89 Interstate interchange (see Location Map-green line on map).
Elevation
The elevation of the site is approximately X feet above sea level.
Slope
The slope of the land is almost flat.
Aspect
Exposure / Climate
Soils
Detailed Inventory
(see attached Site Plan)
Numbers and Types of Species
The site contains 19 mature X maple trees and X younger X maple trees.
Age of Species
The 19 mature maple trees range in age between X and X years old. The 5 younger maple trees were planted around X and therefore are approximately X years old.
Size of Species
The 19 mature maple trees range in size between X and X inches in diameter and X and X feet in height and X and X feet in canopy cover.
Conditions and Deficiencies
Prescribed Treatments / Tasks
Maintenance
See the attached maintenance plan for 15 of the 19 mature trees. The maintenance plan is divided into two phases that will take place over the course of two consecutive years. The first phase / first year will consist of safety pruning trees numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18 and 19 (COMPLETED 2002). The second phase / second year will consist of cabling and bracing trees numbered 4, 6, 10, 17, 18 and 19, and fertilizing tree numbered 7.
Removal and Replacement
Trees numbered 8, 11, 14 and 16 are recommended for removal because they are either already dead, or are at a point whereby any treatments would not significantly prolong the life or enhance the health of the trees and / or create a safer environment. This would occur in the second phase / second year of the plan and it is hoped that the removed trees would be replaced.
Morse Property Site
Rumney School Site
Carr Cemetery Site
Village Cemetery Site
Implementation Plan
Maintenance Schedule and Removal / Replacement Plan
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2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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Develop Draft Tree Resources Plan
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X
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Inventory Center Road Cemetery Tree Site
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X
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Establish a Town funding source and other resources for future match requirements for grants
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X
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Activate the Town Tree Warden and establish a Community Forest Committee
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X
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Secure grant funds for and implement plan’s first phase for Center Road Cemetery Project
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X
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Continue developing Tree Resources Plan and inventory the Morse Property Site
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X
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Dedicate the Ed Weed tree
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Secure grant funds for and implement plan’s second phase for Center Road Cemetery Project
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Continue developing Tree Resources Plan and inventory the Morse Property Site and the Rumney School Site
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Dedicate the Ed Weed tree
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Secure grant funds for and implement plan for the Morse Property Project and the Rumney School Project
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Continue developing Tree Resources Plan and inventory the Carr Cemetery Site
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Dedicate the Ed Weed tree
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Secure grant funds for and implement plan for Carr Cemetery Project
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Continue developing Tree Resources Plan and inventory the Village Cemetery Site
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Dedicate the Ed Weed tree
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Secure grant funds for and implement plan for Village Cemetery Project
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Continue developing Tree Resources Plan
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Dedicate the Ed Weed tree
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Program Implementation
Tree Warden
The Town’s Tree Warden, has been reactivated and will be responsible for the development and implementation of the Tree Resources Plan; including facilitating the site inventories, the administration of related grants and the procurement of services to implement the Plan. The Tree Warden will also serve as the Chair of a newly established Conservation Commission subcommittee – the Community Forest Committee.
Conservation Commission
The Conservation Commission will establish a new subcommittee, the Community Forest Committee, and appoint the Tree Warden as the Chair of this committee. The Conservation Commission will provide support to the Committee, the Tree Warden and the Select Board on all community forest related issues.
Funding
Town
The Town will establish and maintain a line item in the Town Annual Budget for the Tree Warden and his/her activities; especially as they relate to the development and implementation of the Tree Resources Plan.
Grants and other sources
The Town will also seek other funding sources when and if the need arises to supplement the Town’s annual appropriations in order to ensure the development and implementation of the Tree Resources Plan. Such funding sources may include but not be limited to the following:
• Urban and Community Forestry Program’s “Trees for Local Communities” Cost Share Programs
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