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TREE INVENTORY In January 2006, Crown Hill Cemetery and Brenwick Development engaged Vine & Branch, one of the city’s most respected tree companies, to prepare a tree inventory of the north woods of the cemetery. Vine & Branch produced a 64-page document listing 2,745 trees by tag number, species diameter at breast height, and condition rating of 1 (excellent) to 5 (dead). Jud Scott, consulting arborist and president of Vine & Branch, stated that the trees were generally very healthy. He guessed that there was formerly an old farmstead on the site and that the trees were mostly second growth. He stated that 40-to-50-year-old trees predominate perimeter of the property. On the west side are rows of trees planted, perhaps indicating an old nursery at one time. In a line-by-line count to account for missing tags, there are 2,745 trees with a diameter of nine inches or greater. The team did not inventory any trees smaller than 9 inches. The following 24 trees are all three feet in diameter at breast height or larger. Note the number of trees common to wet woods and the diversity of the species present on this property; there are 47 species of trees in the full document. Botanists have estimated that the bur oaks of 40 to 50 inches in diameter are in the range of 200 years old.
Alliance of Crown Hill Neighbors; P. O. Box 88770; Indianapolis, Ind. 46208 crownhillneighbors@hotmail.com
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