VOL. 2, NO. 4 • AUTUMN 1999
Crookston’s Community Forest
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What’s Wrong With My Ash?
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Winter Protection
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‘Tis the Season...
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Letters
8-9 STAC Award Application 10 STAC News 11 Potpourri
Autumn ’99 ◆ The Minnesota Shade Tree Advisory Committee’s mission is to advance Minnesota’s commitment to the health, care and future of all community forests.
MnSTAC . . . 25 Years Young! Twenty-five years young and going strong! ThatÕs MnSTAC today. Members and friends came together at the Minnesota Humanities Center in St. Paul on Sept 30 to reminisce, reflect on what MnSTAC has meant to them and recall both the successes and the current needs of urban forests. A quarter of a century ago, many individuals who would later become the core of MnSTAC were quietly advocating for trees in their own ways. But particularly when Dutch elm disease continued to ravage the stateÕs shade trees, they recognized the need for better communication and support among community Òtree people.Ó Today the group includes citizens-at-large and public officials, people from state and federal agencies, private businesses, municipal governments and educational institutions . . . all advocating for the health and welfare of community forests! Your winter Advocate will feature some of MnSTACÕs founding members and milestones in the groupÕs history. In the meantime, hereÕs a glimpse of a few of the familiar faces who were at the Silver Anniversary reunion!
TREE TRUST
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GARY JOHNSON
In This Issue
Bonnie Lawrence, community forest volunteer, St. Paul and Terri Goodfellow-Heyer, MN Horticulture Society. Bonnie Lawrence is one of the citizen activists in the group. She says she started out planting trees for fun with leftover seedlings from Kirk Brown (Tree Trust) in 1991. That sparked her love for trees, her affiliation with MnSTAC and her leadership role in numerous St. Paul inner city planting projects. ◆◆◆
Visit us on the Web at http://www.cnr.umn.edu/FR/extension/MNSTAC/MNSTACindex.htm
Veteran STACers Jim Hermann, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) and Dave DeVoto, former Director of Forestry for MPRB. Dave is officially retired, though you’d never know it. The Mystery Question: Where was Dave on October 2, 1974, and who was with him? (Look for the answer in your January Advocate!) ◆◆◆
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