Jenny....thanks for sharing. What a fascinating idea to celebrate trees in our urban areas.
Have you seen this month's Nat'l Geographic Magazine? There is a story in there about the Mannahatta project to recreate through modern GIS techniques and old hand drawn maps what NYC must have looked like when Henry Hudson first sailed up river. While I have never set foot on Manhattan Island, I have viewed it years ago from the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Ferry. In my minds eye, Manhattan was a featureless plain of towering concrete and steel. This article and the referenced website of the project, http://themannahattaproject.org/ has graphically dispelled this image and reenforced my need to add a visit to NYC into my bucket list. And maybe look up some of the places like the Bronx River you have defined so eloquently in your posts. The article begins and ends on the appearance of a beaver nicknamed Jose that set up shop on the riverside at the Bronx Zoo in 2007. wf On Aug 30, 9:36 pm, JennyNYC <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > > FYI - this is a project that is part of the 100 year celebration of > the Grand Concourse (road in the Bronx somewhat equivalent to > Broadway). Notable trees along the Concourse and around the Bronx will > be marked and have a phone# to call for various bits of info! > > Cool idea and I hope it is a success. It would be so great if there > was a Manhattan "Tree Museum" too. > > http://flavorpill.com/newyork/events/2009/6/21/tree-museum > > Jenny --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
