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LASN Letters December 200711-27-07 | News

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Terry Flatley, parks manager, Renton, Wash., commented:

Red maple as a good street tree selection? Your criteria must not have included things like life span, propensity towards included bark, poor resistance to decay, tendency to surface root more than other species, poor high wind resistance and overplanting/overuse.

Len Phillips, administrator of Online Seminars for Municipal Arborists (on-line-seminars.com) commented:

The article gave the impression that the trees listed were the only trees that met the requirements stipulated. The trees listed are best suited for the Washington D.C. area and perhaps this should have been stated in the research report.

Online Seminars for Municipal Arborists developed a list of 135 urban trees that met the same requirement as those stipulated in the article. This list appeared in the Jan./Feb. 2007 seminar and is now available only from the seminar archives. This list was compiled from municipal arborists and nurserymen all over the northern two thirds of the U.S. Each seminar offers a detailed look at one of these excellent urban trees, many of which are actually better than the trees the article reported.

The Natchez Crape Myrtle

Barry Landry, ASLA, director, landscape architecture, Root Design Co., Austin, Texas, commented:

I enjoy your regular newsletter every issue. In the spirit of botanical correctness, the crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia) pictured is not the ?EUR??,,????'?????<

Please keep the interesting (especially the humorous) articles coming!

Thanks, happy gardening.

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Re: 2007 ASLA Class of Fellows in the Oct. issue, James Jensen, Power Engineers, Boise, Idaho, commented on the investiture of Jonathan Mueller, FASLA:

Jon is one of the most sincere, honest, and hardworking guys I have ever had the pleasure to know, and has been a very long time friend and associate. Congratulations to Jon ?EUR??,,????'?????<
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Laurie Olin, FASLA

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There is a problem with skate parks, as they do not allow bikes in most of the parks nationwide. BMX is considered a crime and at our local park we get tickets in excess of $150 just for riding there. I think that the comment about allowing bikes was very untrue as there are only three to four states that allow BMXers to ride the parks?EUR??,,????'?????<
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