Tree Moscow

Last April (2007) Tom Lamar, Amy Grey and I talked about an effort to increase tree planting in Moscow.

We had three different, but potentially overlapping interests in this activity. Tom through PCEI along the lines of habitat restoration, esp along creeks and wetlands, Amy, through Backyard Harvest for planting of fruit trees. My goal was driven by my response to Inconvenient Truth, a desire to contribute to carbon sequestration by planting large growing, long lived, and self-propagating trees in places where they have a chance of spreading.

Amy designed a logo but we never got the project launched. Working with Roger Blanchard and the PPTF, Karina and I planted planted and tended trees east of Blaine last spring and again this year. This year, I'm putting out an oak that is reproducing itself in the Travois linear park, seedlings from a sycamore maple that has grown in my yard since before 1926 (and spreads well where I don't want it), and a delicious pie cherry that sends up suckers in the yard if I don't mow it. All these are going along the path east of Blaine.