Arbor Day New Harmony Utah

New Harmony Utah will be having it's first annual Arbor Day Celebration on May 16th 2009.

As of January 2009 the city of New Harmony adopted a new city ordinance for a shade tree committee for the preservation of its city trees. Also to help with the planting of new trees on city property. The mayor has proclaimed the 3rd weekend in May of each year for an Arbor Day Celebration. This is the first step in becoming a Tree City USA. Which will help in getting grants for the maintenance of our trees now and to help maintain and grow new trees in the city.


Arbor Day activities for New Harmony Utah.

We will be opening with a flag raising ceremony at 9am, the Mayor Joel Webster will be opening the ceremony with the declaration of Arbor Day.

Kevan Jorgensen will then go over the days activities and the importance of trees in the urban communities.

We will have trees for sale to the public for only 5$ per tree. This money will be used to pay for the removal 2 large Hazardous trees in the community.

There will also be a demonstration of how to prune a mature Apple tree. New Harmony has hundreds of mature apple trees that could use a proper pruning.

We will have food available for lunch.

Plant World and Big Trees Nursery have donated a total of 2 large trees for our Arbor Day. One tree will be dedicated to our first Arbor Day Celebration. The other large tree will be raffled off to a lucky citizen of the community.

Hope to see you all there. May 16th 2009.

Plant Trees in Memory

A vibrant, beautiful tree benefits everyone in this and future generations and is perhaps the most fitting memorial of all. Planting a tree is an act of direct benefit to all.

It can inspire energy, faith, devotion, and courage and carry forward the name of those memorialized in a living, vital way that grows grander with the years.

New Tree ID web site

New Online USU Tree Browser Available

The new online Utah Tree Browser is now available at www.treebrowser.org. The USU Tree Browser is an interactive database containing information on 241 native and introduced trees growing in Utah and the Intermountain West. The browser contains 1073 full color photographs (numbers as of January 2009). Users can browse through a complete list of trees or narrow their choices by selecting from 21 general, growth-related, cultural, and ornamental characteristics, including whether a tree is native or introduced. For each species there is a fact sheet, usually including descriptions of the leaves, twigs/buds, flowers/fruit, bark, wood, general comments about the tree's native habitat, and a description of its uses in cultivated landscapes, including its USDA Plant Hardiness Zone designation.

The new Tree Browser is available on the Web for free and is always up-to-date. It works on any computer that has an Internet connection and has Flash installed (nearly all computers do), and it works on Macs as well as PCs and with any Web browser. It is brought to you by USU Extension Forestry and was created by Extension Specialist Mike Kuhns and Box Elder County Extension Agent Lyle Holmgren, with programming by Scott McCallister and Robert Holloway and graphic design by Annie Jensen of USU. Partial funding was provided by U.S. Forest Service State & Private Forestry.

The new Tree Browser works best with non-dialup (moderately fast) Web connections and with monitors sized at least 1100 pixels wide by 768 pixels high. A desktop version (on DVD) will be available soon for those with slower or no Internet connections. Check at http://extension.usu.edu/forestry/HomeTown/Select_TreeBrowser.htm for information on DVD availability.

Contact Mike Kuhns at mike.kuhns@usu.edu for more information.

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Big Trees in Utah Site

With sincere thanks to Hal Jensen, the Utah Community Forest Council/ISA-Utah Chapter is pleased to announce an awesome new service on our website.

Hal, who is our Treasurer, created an online Google map showing the location of each Big Tree in Utah. Hal included an alphabetical list of all Big Trees. When a user clicks on a Big Tree name, a pop-up box gives information regarding the tree’s Latin name, location, measurements, nominator, etc.

To check out this great feature, go to http://www.utahurbanforest.org/big-tree.html and click on the Online Map Locations link.

And please help me in offering a sincere THANK YOU to Hal Jensen for the time and effort he put into this project. UCFC has some wonderful volunteers, as demonstrated by Hal’s efforts. You can contact Hal directly at:

Hal Jensen
Mount Olympus Tree Service
(801) 278-1666
mt_olympus_tree_service@comcast.net

Thank you Hal!

To find out what big trees we have in the Southern Utah area click on the link above.
Virgin has a large Pecan tree. See if St. George, Cedar City, Springdale, Santa Clara, Washington, New Harmony or any town in the USA has Large trees.