Sara Jacoby Landscape Design

08/07/2021

06/11/2021

Fire crews are trying to prevent eastward progress of the Telegraph Fire, particularly near Globe and Miami.

06/03/2020

Trees planted in the right place can have many benefits, but planted in the wrong place, a tree can become a safety hazard and cause power outages. Learn how to make sure you are planting the right tree in the right place in this new guide: https://bit.ly/2XGjSMC

Arizona Public Service - APS
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management
TreesAreGood.org

10/31/2019

09/10/2019

ORIGIN OF THE CENTURY TREE. When the brand new A&M College opened in 1876, there were a limited number of native trees growing on campus. Over the next few years, most of those native trees were consumed as firewood to heat the buildings during the winters - leaving the campus a desolate grassland. The administrators recognized the need to repopulate the campus with trees. But nobody had a clue which species of tree would grow well in the campus soil and climate. From the mid-1880s through the early 1890s, the Horticulture Department at the college - under the direction of Dr. E.J. Kyle (yes, that Kyle) - planted over 70 species of test trees in the area around Old Main. For about 18 years, the horticulture students cared for and monitored the growth of those test trees. In 1907, an official report was published which detailed the specific results of each of those 70+ test tree species. The LIVE OAK was chosen as the best tree species to plant on campus because of the prolific growth of the live oak test tree which was planted in 1891 as an 18-inch tall seedling just to the northwest of Old Main. Old Main burned in 1912 and was replaced by the Academic Building in 1914. The live oak test tree - planted at the same exact time that former Texas Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross became the new president of the college - survived the burning of Old Main and the construction of the Academic Building. We know that live oak test tree today as the Century Tree. And due to its selection back in 1907, over 80% of the 11,000 trees on the Texas A&M campus today are live oaks. This photo (courtesy of the Cushing Library) shows the 16-year old live oak test tree in 1907 - just to the northwest of Old Main - where it still grows today. The Century Tree is now 129 years old and is in excellent health. Live oaks are long-lived trees known to grow for 600 years or more. The Century Tree dates back to 15 years after the young college started in 1876. It is older than any building on campus. Gig 'em!

08/29/2019

Join Jim Downer and friends (too many notables to list!) in the amazing Arizona mountains for Trees of the Chiricahua Mountains - Biology, Ecology, and Drought Adaptations. This week long all inclusive educational opportunity is being held at the Southwestern Research Station - American Museum of Natural History on October 07-11, 2019 in Portal, AZ

For more info visit.....
https://www.wcisa.net/industryevent/539

07/21/2019

New website coming soon!

07/21/2019

Avian experts and workers scambled Thursday and Friday to rescue dozens of baby birds and even eggs from an Oakland tree that split in half.

07/21/2019

Patiently Waiting for the First Storm ❤️🌵

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