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Questions?
E-mail
Forestry Division
If
possible, take a couple of digital photos of your tree or shrub
and include them with your questions. One photo should be a close
up of the problem area. The second photo should be of the entire
tree if possible.
Lions
Park Urban Forest Interpretive Center
Mayor
Jack Spiker cuts the ribbon to open the Tree House component of
the interpretive center with the assistance of
School kids.
(Photo:
Wyoming State Forestry Division)
• The
three components of the Urban Forest Interpretive Center are:
Nature Center, Tree House, and Who Crossed My Path animal tracks.
The components are connected by a sidewalk that adjoins the paved
path to the Cheyenne
Botanic Gardens, Discovery Pond, The Rotary Century Plazas,
and across the street (Carey Avenue) to the Old West Museum.
I. The
Tree House
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The tree house, with decks at 4-feet, 8-feet,
10-feet, 12-feet, 16-feet and 20-feet high provide a "birds
eye" view of life in the urban forest. Interpretive signs
will be placed on decks of the tree house in the future, with
information relating the native forests in the Rocky Mountains
with the "man-made" forest in Cheyenne.
View
to the 20-foot deck level with kids looking down.
Photo:
Wyoming State Forestry Division
View
from 20-foot deck level.
Photo:
Wyoming State Forestry Division
II.
Nature Center
Always
changing, always growing.
• Visual
and hands-on displays for people of all ages and levels of learning,
concerning the natural world of trees, birds, and other urban
wildlife.
• Displays
depict a tree's life: Seed collection, Anatomy of a tree trunk
and limbs, Good and Bad tree insects, Bird nest collection
A
Russ Hamilton mural in the Nature Center
The
Artist and his mural.
III.
Who crossed my path?
• Wild
animal tracks in the sidewalk of past and recent animals that
have been seen in Lions Park, Airport Golf Course, and Lake Absarraca.
Taft Love (right)
is making tracks, skunk tracks that is, in the new sidewalk as
part of "Who Crossed My Path", Greg Selin of Cheyenne's
1% on the left. The tracks highlight wildlife inhabitants and
wildlife visitors to Lions Park in Cheyenne.
Project Donors
Cheyenne Light Fuel
and Power
City of Cheyenne 1% personnel
Cook-McCann Concrete Inc.
Creative Concrete Inc.
John and Joanne Cornelison
Excel Energy of Cheyenne
Guardian Companies
JR's Tree Experts - Jeff Marsolek
Laramie County Recreation Board
Milliron T. J. Outfitting Inc. -
Taft Love
Carmen Nicholls
Pacific Power of Wyoming
Rande Pouppirt, Architect
Seed & Weed Garden Club
U.S.D.A. Forest Service
Weydeveld Woodworks - Carter Weydeveld
Women's Civic League of Cheyenne
Wyoming Community Forestry Council
Wyoming Community Foundation
Wyoming State Forestry Division
Workshops
• The Colorado Tree Coalition
has several conferences listed on their Website at: Coloradotrees.org
25th
Anniversary
Arbor Day in Cheyenne - 2007
Cheyenne celebrated
our 25th Arbor Day on September 25, 2007. Although most Arbor
Days are celebrated in the Spring, early Fall and late Summer
are also a good time to plant many types of trees.
There were 320 - Kindergarten
through 6th grade elementary students from five different Cheyenne
schools attending Arbor Day.
Events Inside Old Community House:
Cheyenne
Mayor Jack Spiker receives the 25 Year Award
for Tree City USA from Mark Hughes
- Wyoming State Forestry Division.
• Weather
demonstration by Doug Hall from CBS Channel 5 television station.
• Conservation
demonstration by the Laramie County Conservation District
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Tree Rings presentation by Wyoming State Forestry Division's
Mark Hughes - with free tree
"cookies"
Events Outside:
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Removing and Recycling a Tree, Planting a tree, and Climbing trees.
Tree
Planting Demonstration with a Tree Spade
 
320
students "climbed" 20- feet off the ground into
a tree with ropes and harnesses and with
assistance from arborists.
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