LES+Tree+Survey

=LES Tree Survey=

An informal, yet informative survey of the health of our local trees.
Survey provided by the NYC Parks Dept and can be found at:

media type="custom" key="6584629" We noticed that there was a lot of trees that had the rating of 7, which is good. We also noticed that there were no tree ratings of 1 and 2 which is also good. The tree rating of 7 being high means that the trees in Seward Park are pretty healthy. we believe the reason why 25% of the trees with rating of 7 is because they located in the same area and they getting treatment. The trees with lower ratting were located near bus routes and car traffic and experience more pollution. I don’t think trees aren’t really adapted to the city type of environment. Trees usually grow in places that are much more natural. Also trees that grow in their natural habitat usually have animals that can benefit for them. For example some animals contain a special fertilizer in the manure. I think our graph is one of the best and accurate graphs out of all the groups. Our team never knew how important trees are for the enviroment until we started getting more and more information about them everyday either in the botanical garden, central park & seward park. The tree that we found a lot of were American Elm trees. The graph represents everything that needs to be known. But we would like to see trees with rating of 10.

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We noticed that the only tree species with a perfect 10 was the flowering dogwood. We think this happened because only one flowering dogwood was found. Out of the 120 trees there was only one flowering dogwood. Also, the flowering dogwood is an adaptable tree and this specific tree was probably in an optimal spot. If we had seen more flowering dogwood trees we probably would've seen a difference in the rating.

the Japanese lilac was found in the Sarah Roosevelt park and only one was found which does not give us enough, but by judging from the information give the Japanese lilac is not doing very good based on its rating.

The location of the flowering dogwood was important in the data. Maybe a lot of buses or cars didn't pass by the location of the flowering dogwood. If we had gotten a flowering dogwood from a different location and averaged both flowering dogwoods then the rating wouldn't be 10.

I saw that only three types of trees (Flowering Dogwood, Japanese Lilac, and Sugar Maple) those three are either high or low on the graph. The other many trees are in the range of 6-8. I think the reason behind that is there were more of the same tree type then others, and because of location differences. In New York City, there's a lot of pollution and most of the common trees are on sidewalks of the busy streets like Grand St and Essex St. which are by Chinatown and the Williamsburg Bridge so many cars pass by and pollute the trees. In NYC, one of the common trees is the honeylocust tree, and since there so many trees of that type finding out info about how polluted the tree is its easy because its common so more info can be back up.

media type="custom" key="6585225" There are atleast 13 different types of trees in Sarah Roosevelt park. The two most common trees in the park was Sugar Maple and Green Ash. The leaast common ones were Chinese Elm, American Elm, European Hornbeam, Little Leaf Linden, Black Locust, Zelkova, Hack Berry, Birch, and Bold Cypress. What is the reason for these trees to be so common in the park??? Ithink it looks that way because they were all near eachother and when we started to look more we picked a couple more of these tree types. Or maybe because this tree is environment friendly so they put these trees all over. The reason these least common trees are down on the graph are because we didn’t search the others trees around these. Or it could just be that these trees are rare in this park.

media type="custom" key="6585561" what i notice about this graph is that there more American elm. the American tree is long lived (300+ years), because kid wont be abile to climb on them because it to tall and it can probity help pollution

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in the graph it shows that the katsura tree has the highest population. because of its big leafs it provides shade to the peoplethat visit Seward park Extension. why are the katsura tree the highest with the population? why can they survive in this area? was it because there is better soil? or because the seeds didn't travel far enough? no one knows the reason for the katsura trees but they are helpful during the summer.

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In this graph it showed that the tree we encountered was all close to roads and parking lots and this is because we live in New York. In New York we have many cars and with cars come roads and with roads come places to put your car after its done being on the roads which is a parking lot. These are bad for trees because they give off poisonous fumes that hurt the trees around the cars. The question with the least number of negative scores is number four: Are there footpaths around the tree? I think this question got the least number of negative scores because the tree's were fenced and noone could bother being around the tree which made this question easy to answer.

media type="custom" key="6585369" **//__ Why Do American Elm Trees Grow Faster & Taller? __//** American Elm Tree’s grows faster and taller because the environment in the park is great and the elm tree can grow up to 100 ft tall so no kids can play with them.Unlike other trees like the serviceberry tree that doesn’t produce much and doesn’t grow as tall to people has advantage to mess the tree’s up. These Tree’s can be found from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, along with central Texas and Florida. Which makes it very strong so that the branches rarely ever break.Trees add not only beauty but value to the property. The value of a mature American elm for insurance purposes is  $2,500. Fully mature American elm trees can live as long as 300 years. The American elm tree is a large growing shade tree previously used along city streets and in home landscapes. In the early 1900s, Dutch elm disease caused a destruction of the tree throughout North America, making it no longer a viable landscape option

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 * If you look at our graphs you'll Notice that the tree in Seward parks Graph had the ratings of 3, 4, and 5, but Sarah Roosevelt Park didn't. Seward Park and Sarah Roosevelt Park had a lot of 7 tree ratings and Seward Park Extension had a lot of 4 Tree Ratings .**I think that the Sarah Roosevelt Park had higher ratings then the Seward Park Extension because The Seward Park Extension is more boxed into a complex, in the Sarah Roosevelt Park there were people that work and make sure the park was clean from any litter, While on the other hand The Seward Park Extension had no one to really help clean up and take care of the complex. When people take care of the trees they become healthier and the condition of the tree becomes good, I guess that’s probably why the Sarah Roosevelt Park had higher ratings then The Seward Park Extension.

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media type="custom" key="6591427" WHY DOES SARAH ROOSEVELT PARK HAVE MOSTLY RATINGS OF 7? BECAUSE OF SARAHS ROOSEVELTS PARK EXPOSED AREA THE TREES HAVE A BETTER CHANCE TO GET MORE SUNSHINE, AIR, AND PRICIPITATION BECAUSE OF THE EXPOSED AREA THE TREE IS TOOKEN CARE OF BETTER. COMPARED TO THE OTHER GRAPHS IN MY GROUP LIKE LESLIE MY AREA IS MORE EXPOSED AND HAS ACCESS TO THE NECESSITIES THAT IT NEEDS LESLIES AREA IS A MORE PRIVATE AREA SO GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IS NEEDED 24/7 AND DOESN’T HAS FULL ACCESS TO THE WORLDS NATURAL WAY OF PROVIDING. JOSHUAS AREA IS ALSO AN OPEN AREA JUST LIKE MINE DO HE TO HAS ACCESS TO THE WORLDS NATURAL WAY OF PROVIDING SO HIS DEVOLPEMENT IS ALSO JUST AS GREAT.