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The Davey Bulletin Sept-Oct 2017

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September/October 2017 | The Davey Bulletin 23 Pictured back row from left are Dan Gillen, landscape foreman, Albany R/C office, Bryant Merkley, assistant district manager, Albany R/C office, and Bill Van Cura, utility services operations manager at a tree planting at Glendaal Elementary School. Greensboro Beautiful, Inc. (GBI), the city of Greensboro and over 50 volunteers planted 104 trees for their first community carbon bank in February at Price Park. Keith Francies, southeast operations manager, Residential/Commercial services, and GBI board of directors member and co-chair of the urban forestry committee, said a company called Urban Offsets, who organized the project, is working to connect universities, non-profit organizations and municipalities to conduct more tree plantings that count toward carbon credits. TREES AS CARBON BANKS GENERATE BIG RETURNS Elon University purchased the credits from this planting to help offset their carbon output. Students from the university participated in the planting. "We do a lot of community tree plantings, but this one was different because there's a true monetary value being assigned to each tree by species and how much carbon the tree will capture over its lifetime," Francies said. The money from the carbon credits is going into a tree fund for future tree plantings and preservation efforts, he said. At Glendaal Elementary in Glenville, New York, Colleen (Van Cura) Monaco's students and members of the school newspaper learned fun facts about the serviceberry tree planted on Arbor Day at their school. Members of Davey's Albany R/C office and Colleen's dad, Bill Van Cura, operations manager, Eastern Utility services, told the children various facts about the tree, such as the tree having inedible berries and white flowers. FIRST GRADERS LEARN ABOUT NEW TREE The volunteers received a proper tree planting demonstration and were broken up into smaller groups with a planting supervisor during the planting. Photo Credit: Greensboro Beautiful, Inc.

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