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» Hello, my name's Richard Jones. I'm the
Village Arborist with the Village of

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North Chevy Chase in Maryland. So today
the Village is having its joint Arbor

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[music] Day Earth Day celebration. This
involves some tabling and native plant

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sale and Arbor Day celebration.
It builds a sense of community. You

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know, this is their Village and that's
that's an important thing to have when

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you start looking at, well, what can we
do to beautify and maintain it and be

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good neighbors [music] with one another.
I'll be giving a tree tour a little

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later during the event. We're going
[music] to walk in the Village and I'm

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going to point out some of the different
species that we have here in the Village

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and different tree facts [music] and you
know, answer questions as they come up.

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We have some fairly forgiving trees in
our area. You know, my personal favorite

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[music] is the Eastern Redbud.
It is a relatively small, well-behaved

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tree, beautiful [music] blooms, attracts
a lot of pollinators, and relatively

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forgiving of the [music] soil conditions
it's in. So, you know, a lot of times

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people will say, "Oh, I'm just going to
plant a tree [music] here in the grass.

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Oh, why isn't it doing well?" Well,
there's soil to consider, there's you

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have the turf grass. So starting with
something like [music] that is is a

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great idea. But really any sort of
native plant, tree, shrub that's

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accustomed to [music] our local
ecosystem is fantastic for that. The

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native plants have
evolved in this local ecosystem, which

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means that they're accustomed to the
different pests in the area. They are

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accustomed to the changes in weather,
the amount of rainfall.

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And so really starting off with that can
be a great way to succeed when you're

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trying to plant a bunch of plants. There
is a lot of discussion on, you know,

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what counts as native. Um, I [music]
always recommend looking in your very

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specific area and not worry about just,
oh, well, what's native in the state

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because the state of Maryland has many
different little ecosystems in it. A big

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issue in our area is canopy cover. Uh,
canopy cover can reduce uh, ambient

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temperatures, it can uh, intercept
rainfall, and these are all very

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important things in this [music] built
environment that we live in. Uh, so

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something as simple as planting or
watering a tree can be great. [music]

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Uh, we always want to make sure we're
maintaining what we plant. This is an

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annual event. Uh, this is the fifth year
that the village has been designated as

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[music] a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day
Foundation. Uh, this is a program that's

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gone back about 50 years uh, that
involves [music]

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having an Arbor Day celebration, that
involves uh, having a certain amount of

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your municipality's budget dedicated to
tree care, and having uh, people in your

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community who are both interested in
planting and maintaining trees. Uh, the

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first Arbor Day was [music] over 150
years ago, and this is a continuation of

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