October 2001

October 2001 - Part 2 of 2
(Boy Scouts planting trees)

Part 3 - Clean up & Adjusting mulch beds

October 2001 - Part 1 of 2
(Measuring holes, Preparing treatments, Preparing the mulch, Arbortie)

Each hole was measured with a 3 or 5 gallon container so that when the tree planting frenzy begins we can be sure that the trees will not be planted too deep.	Every hole needed to have some soil added before being packed down and re-measured.
Here's the crew responsible for performing the measurements	Help, we fallen and we can't get out!	Cindy Carrera	Heather Ingraham	Andrew "shovel hand" Wax

To calculate how much peat moss was needed for 25% of the backfill, we completely filled one hole with soil. The soil was carefully removed and measure with this bucket. It was determined that 2.5 buckets of peat moss was needed in each hole.

Kelley Hijjeh and Chris Wright "striking the pose" after several hours of shlepping around peat moss and mulch.

20 out of 90 holes received peat moss.

In conjucntion with DeepRoot Inc., an additional experiment has been incorporated into the larger tree planting project. Arbortie is a relatively new product which appears to serve as an excellent staking material.The folks at DeepRoot are confident that the white Arbortie will breakdown much sooner than the green Arbortie. Since no one has performed this research we thought this particular project would be perfect for such a study.

Zack Booth, with two fellow Boy Scouts, carefully stake a white oak with Arboritie. One down.... 44 to go!

Cindy Carrera ties the tree's name tag onto each tree with green Arbortie.

	Cline Excavating mixed together wood chips which were donated by two regional tree care companies (Williams Brothers & Bartlett Tree Experts)