Web Site Highlight
Virginia Tech Dendrology Fact Sheets are excellent resources for anyone trying to identify trees. The site lists trees alphabetically by scientific Family, Genus and Specie. Once a tree is selected, its’ individual page provides verbal descriptions of key identifying characteristics; photos of a branch with buds, bark, fruit, full plant, leaf, and flower; and a sound file pronouncing the scientific name. Some pages provide links to other resources, most often the native range map for the specie. Visit the Virginia Tech Dendrology Fact Sheets site at: http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/biglist_frame.htm http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/biglist_frame.htm
A YOUNG BIRCH
The birch begins to crack its outer sheath
Of baby green and show the white beneath,
As whosoever likes the young and slight
May well have noticed. Soon entirely white
To double day and cut in half the dark
It will stand forth, entirely white in bark,
And nothing but the top a leafy green-
The only native tree that dares to lean,
Relying on its beauty, to the air.
(Less brave perhaps than trusting are the fair.
And someone reminiscent will recall
How once in cutting brush along the wall
He spared it from the number of the slain,
At first to be no bigger than a cane,
And then no bigger than a fishing pole,
But now at last so obvious a bole
The most efficient help you ever hired
Would know that it was there to be admired,
And zeal would not be thanked that cut it down
When you were reading books or out of town.
It was a thing of beauty and was sent
To live its life out as an ornament.
-- -- Robert Frost
January 17
Community Forestry Leadership Workshop: Making Your City A Better Place, Discovery Center, 4750 Troost, Kansas City, MO, Preregistration and $5 fee required, Lunch included, contact Missouri Forest Releaf at: 1-888-473-5323 or moreleaf@anet-stl.com
January 25
Winter Tree Identification Training, Walter Woods Conservation Area, Joplin, MO, Preregistration required. Contact: 417-629-3423
February 4 - 9
NAA Winter Management Conference, Westin Rio Mar Beach, Rio Grande, PR, Contact: Carol Crossland, crossland@natlarb.com, 603-314-5380
February 5
ISA Certification Exam, Springfield, MO
February 5 - 7
Midwestern Chapter ISA Annual Conference, Springfield, MO
Over 10 ISA CEU´s available. Contact: Joe Payne, 417-864-1954, joe_payne@ci.springfield.mo.us
March 6 - 7
Missouri Community Forestry Conference, Kansas City Crown Centre Contact: Justine Gartner, 573-751-4115 Ext 3116, gartnj@mdc.state.mo.us
March 7
ISA Certification Exam, MDC Discovery Center, Kansas City
March 11 - 13
National Arbor Day Foundation's 10th Annual Trees & Utilities National Conference, Arbor Day Farm, Lied Conference Center, Nebraska City, NE Contact: National Arbor Day Foundation, 402-474-5655, conferences@arborday.org
April 4
Missouri Arbor Day
April 17
ISA Certification Exam, Runge Nature Center, Jefferson City, MO
April 17
TRIM II Grant Application Workshop, Walter Woods Conservation Area, Joplin
April 25
National Arbor Day
June 14
Midwest ISA Jamboree & Tree Climbers Competition, Springfield, MO
Start recording accomplishments and expenditures for 2003 Tree City, USA and Tree Line, USA recognition.
To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.
-- Russell Page
Time to plan for spring tree planting.
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