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General News: Cornwall: Tree City USA
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| A cherry tree planted at Sands-Ring home last year |
March 15, 2007
The town of Cornwall has been designated a Tree City U.S.A. by the Arbor Day Society for the third year in a row, thanks to the efforts of town tree warden Kate Goodspeed. Most of what Goodspeed did was formalize a lot of the efforts that were already happening in the town and then made sure the town proclaimed Arbor Day each April.
At this week’s town board meeting, Supervisor Dick Randazzo acknowledged Goodspeed’s efforts and said the town wants to protect trees “for the environmental and esthetic aspect they provide.”
Goodspeed, a professional landscaper, volunteered to become the town’s tree warden three or four years ago because she is concerned about protecting trees. “My sole purpose is to keep my sticky fingers in the tree business,” Goodspeed says.
As warden, Goodspeed gets involved in property disputes when neighbors can’t agree if a tree needs to be cut down or merely cleaned up. She also had a voice in the planning of the Willow Woods development when the planning board required the developers to work with her to see how they could save trees on the property.
“We found trees in there, beautiful old oak trees,” Goodspeed says, “and the site manager was very good about looking at different ways to cut and fill the property to save the trees.”
Goodspeed says she would like to walk the property and look at the trees with the developers of the Cornwall Commons project but she hasn’t been asked to.
If there were a tighter tree ordinance in town, she says, it might be easier to save old trees on new construction sites. Goodspeed tried to update the town’s tree ordinance last year, she says, but her proposals were rejected by the town board as being too stringent. Undeterred, she will try again with a different proposal.
Meanwhile, Goodspeed still does what she can to save trees and plant new ones. Working with the Cornwall Conservation Committee she helped to plant two crab apple trees at the Sands-Ring Homestead last year. The group has also planted trees at the public library and by the baseball fields.
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how do you contact Kate Goodspeed? Does she also help in Cornwall on Hudson?
posted by Susan on 03/16/07 at 12:00 AM
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