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Bulletin Mar-Apr 19 FA

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27 March/April 2019 | THE DAVEY BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR LEARNS FROM DAVEY AT CLIMATE SUMMIT Erika Teach, natural resource specialist, Davey Institute, demonstrated to several public officials, including San Francisco Mayor London Breed, how to use MyTree, one of several i-Tree tools, at the Urban Forests for Climate Solutions event. This event was an affiliate event of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. "In any urban forestry conversation where there is a need for advocacy and funding, the benefits i-Tree tools quantify can be used," Teach said. "Because it was the Global Climate Action Summit, the focus was on how much carbon trees store and sequester." For Teach, having the opportunity to inform the public about trees and how they are assets to us was the real reward. "Seeing the wide range of people represented in the audience and knowing they are going to walk away with information they didn't have before, that's what is exciting to me," she said. EXPERTISE FOR THE LOVE OF CHAMPION TREES When Shawn Bruzda drove up to his Atlanta area hotel about 10 years ago, there was an incredibly large and beautiful white oak (Quercus alba) there to greet him. And, being the tree lover he is, he now stays in that same hotel every time work brings him to this region of Georgia. "It's pretty incredible since someone clearly went out of their way to preserve this tree when the hotel was being built," Bruzda said. "They lost significant parking because of it and the area is surrounded by highway and urban development, so it's shocking to see this big, beautiful tree." Bruzda has admired the tree with each visit, but during his This is Shawn Bruzda's third state champion tree certification. He specializes in certifying trees in Ohio and is one of about 25 people certified as official American Forests' National Cadre of Tree Measurers to certify champion trees. VISION most recent trip he and Mark McClellan, from the Georgia Forestry Commission, measured the tree and found out that it is in fact the largest of its species in the state. The tree, estimated to be about 300 to 400 years old, is officially a Georgia State Champion Tree. It has a trunk circumference of 258 inches (21.5 feet), a height of 113 feet, and an average canopy spread of 116 feet. Erika Teach had the opportunity to demonstrate MyTree, one of several i-Tree tools, to the Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed.

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