Trees for Sports Complex Planted, Grant Came from Forestry Commision
Published by Joe Burgess November 11th, 2007 in City.
The trees, shown here being planted, were a part of a grant from the Arkansas Forestry Commission.
There are 5 bald-cypress, 2 river birch, and 2 yellow-poplar planted outside the entrance gate.
10 red maples decorate the entrance area, inside the gate, as well as green ash, water oak, and cherry bark oak, in other areas surrounding the ball fields.
12 big red maple will be planted in the parking area.
“Chris Stuhlinger,” University Systems Forestry Manager, representing the Ark. Urban Forestry Council, “was instrumental in this project, his help is greatly appreciated”, commented Truman Hamilton, MEDC executive director.
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Did they (the city) leave the bradford pear trees that were already planted along the walk? As a member of the cal ripken baseball board I was just curious be cause there was a tree planted for each team that we had. This was to remember how many teams were playing out there at the time of the complex’s grand opening.
There were 14 bradford pear trees that were planted in honor of the 14 teams from the tournament.
The “bradford pear” is a small tree that would be overshadowed by the larger trees, so they were transplanted to the “island” between the entrance and exit.
Actually, most of the 14 trees that were planted needed to be “re-planted” because they were found to be “root-bound”. During the transplant process, the roots were “feathered out” to enable them to grow into a root system with enough span to supply the nutritional needs of each individual tree.
Thanks for asking.