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Last fall (2021), the Town of Woodstock (Ulster County) planted one red oak (Quercus rubra) and two Kindred Spirit oaks. Kindred Spirit is a hybrid of swamp white oak (Q. bicolor) and the columnar English oak (Q. robur ‘Fastigiata’). Photo by Carol March
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A ceremonial corgi was part of Woodstock’s tree planting event, which was funded in part by a NYSUFC Tree City USA Reward Grant and celebrated Woodstock’s five years as a Tree City USA. Photo by Michael Veitch
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This Kindred Spirit oak will shade folks who come to the Overlook Bakery in Woodstock. Photo by Cindy Muro
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In Avon (Livingston County), Boy Scouts helped with fall planting of an Exclamation London planetree (Platanus x acerifolia ‘Morton’s Circle’) (pictured) and a Katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) in Circle Park, replanting where trees were lost to a windstorm in June 2021. Photo Courtesy of The Livingston County News
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Avon has prepared an application to become a Tree City USA for the first time and their tree planting was funded in part by a Council Quick Start Grant. Photo Courtesy of The Livingston County News
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Village of Saugerties Tree Commission Member Melanie Avallone prunes one of three of the Village’s new dawn redwood trees (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) as part of a planting celebration last October aided by a Council Tree City USA Reward Grant. Photos Courtesy Village of Saugerties Tree Commission
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The Saugerties Village Tree Commission added this amusing and practical sign to assure anyone new to deciduous conifers.
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The Saugerties team also two Princeton elms (Ulmus ‘Princeton’). Saugerties is entering its sixth year as a Tree City USA.