‘The tree is trying the best’: Why do New York people count and rating every park tree | new York

HENear the morning, when the sun began to beat in late August, several dozen New York, Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park stood in the shadow of one of the 500 trees adorned and worried about hurting his feelings.

Thanks to its feathered leaves and “strong pyramidal shape, we have already described the species – bald cypress, measured the surroundings of the body (17; 43cm) and said that the roots looked normal, their leaves were healthy and that their branches caused some damage without inappropriate pruning. But now we were assigned to the tree with a general note on a “perfect” scale and nobody wanted to say.

“Don’t feel like the trees are judging,” said Sherlan Greaves, one of the new York City Parks department workers. “You do this for the health of the tree.”

“Good morning my baby?” Someone offered.

“Absolutely called the best, Gre Greaves accepted. “It may be better. Between good and fair.” (When I checked again later, I saw that the volunteer who recorded our answers went generously with “good ..)

This is New York City Number of TreesThe ten -year census of the urban forest that makes it livable for 8.5 million people in this concrete forest. First, the tree census, which was first undertaken in 1995 low technology Attempt to measure the cassettes to measure and classify the street trees of volunteers and the city’s street trees to the application -supported production of 2015 Tree mapThe city is an interactive database of about 666,000 street trees.

Additional 150,000 landscapes parking trees Added to the map from 2017 to 2018 and these parking trees will be the focus of voluntary tree stalls in 2025. (The city is actually home to more than 7 million trees, but the people in private property and Central Park are not included in the number of individuals in the 6,800 acres of forest of the city.)

This year, street trees will be counted and categorized Floor Level Mounted in Cars Lidar Scannings – Similar to the technology used by autonomous vehicles – the parking department will provide detailed scans showing the exact location of the trees in the busy street views of the city.

The Parklar Department thought of using Lidar technology to complete the whole project, but the Parks Deputy Environment and Planning Commissioner, Jennifer Greenfeld, produced the data produced by producing in an interview with the parks. Perhaps more importantly, “We can’t let people be part of it.”

Indeed, the tree count has become a obsession for some New York people, Volunteers “Supercounter” To save more than 3,000 trees in the last cycle.

Although none of these respected SuperCounsters were present in the training event I attended, the participants were various tree enthusiasts. Among them, a New York native, who hopes to work for a day for a day parking department, an archive and professor who leaves a day for a day to be there one day, we are all librarians, we are all categorizing today, ve (The number of trees served as an important entry point to look at the green areas of the city for New York residents. Trees New YorkThe organization that educates the Citizen Prourse to support the seven -year official pruners of the Parks department.)

This training came useful when we reached the summit of the enormous protrusion. MANHATTAN SNISTERThe glittering black motherland, which is the center of Marcus Garvey Park, which explodes very enthusiastically at various points of the island. We started our survey by updating a prickly honey grasshopper record that was recorded as a thorn in an incorrect way.little In 2015. Before moving to the next point on the map, the insect holes, sagging branches and some drowning roots were duly recorded in the mapping application: a black cherry determined by the distinctive “burnt corn flake” shell.

A large and large tree of paradise – the body of the body – in the body, in the body, such as an uninterrupted arboreal skin rash on the patch, despite thousands of spotted Lantalflies climbed in the body, appeared in perfect health. A few meters away, the tree map should be a black cherry, everything that remains where it says a giant hid, a confusion belt roots It offers a quiet explanation of his death.

Why does the city undertake such a laborious process to count the trees instead of relying on technology or sampling?

Greenfeld said, “We think of it every time we do it: ‘Why do we do this?’ ‘We manage every tree separately, so it is really important that we take the records separately. ”

The census offers a timely picture of the diversity and health of the trees of the city in five districts and more than 1,700 parks. The collected data will help inform the Parks Department, including the current 22% increase from 22% to 30% by 2035. Most of the public property in New York should not be distributed evenly and the census should help the residents to reduce the “heat burden önemli, which is even lower. In addition, it presents a day of the advanced progress of the city, including the important task of increasing the diversity of trees. . 1995 Tree Count Approximately 70 tree species; The existing map saves 541 species for diary.

“We have learned our lessons from different invasions for many years. chestnut burning or Dutch Elm DiseaseTrusting very few species makes you vulnerable against different disorders and storms. ”

Honey grasshoppers remain the most common street tree in Manhattan and Bronx, while the London plane dominates Brooklyn and Queens with the Pollock Esque peel patterns and takes the highest point in Callery Armut Staten Island. The London plane is “loved” by the strong and influential Middle -century urban planner Robert MosesHowever, his reputation on almost indestrucuation, Sandy Hurricane was susceptible to salty water after explaining that after a stroke; The episode is now avoiding sewing in areas where increasing storm fluctuations are expected.

However, the city was able to expand the variety of trees by changing purchasing practices and dealing with nurseries directly. This, “very resistant to many urban pressure”, but in the early years, surrounded by a “Charlie Brown tree,” he said, otherwise it will not be commercially appropriate, he said.

I thought about the flexibility from diversity as it was re -collected at the end of the two -hour event, and on another day when the US President threatened military action against the city inhabitants, ılmışsoaked with blood“Dystopias. Here were the New York people of all ages, ethnicity and life walks, in our own time, before going out for entertainment and common goodness, they come together to learn to do something hidden.

While preparing to go on our separate ways, he returned to a volunteer group and took off his phone to show the number of trees of a famous detection: A tremendous picture pictures OSEGE Orange A number of Marcus Garvey’s park benches officially determined by the cityBig trees”. Everyone gathered around, Ooh-Ing and Aah-Ing.