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Urban forests, a natural history of trees and people in the American cityscape, Jill Jonnes

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-381) and index

illustrations

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non fiction

Urban forests

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Jill Jonnes

a natural history of trees and people in the American cityscape

Introduction. "We appreciate the symmetry of human and sylvan life" -- "So great a botanical curiosity" and "the celestial tree" : introducing the ginkgo and ailanthus -- "No man does anything more visibly useful to posterity than he who plants a tree" : inventing Arbor Day and cities of trees -- "A demi-god of trees" and "the tree doctor" : Charles Sprague Sargent and John Davey -- "This fungus is the most rapid and destructive known" : a plague strikes the American chestnut -- "Washington would one day be famous for its flowering cherry trees" : Eliza Scidmore and David Fairchild -- "I knew that there were no roads in China" : plant explorers Frank Meyer and E.H. Wilson -- "A poem lovely as a tree" : cherishing memorial and historic trees -- "The two great essentials for an arboretum, soil and money" : Chicago, D.C., and Boston -- "Imagine the wiping out of the beautiful avenues of elms" : battling to save an American icon -- "A forest giant just on the edge of extinction!" : discovering the dawn redwood -- "There was no question that people wanted to save this tree" : crusading for a new American elm -- "Having cities work with forces of nature" : the rise of the new urban forestry -- "Trees are the answer" : John Hansel, Henry Stern, Deborah Gangloff, and George Bush -- "Don't trees clean the air?" : Rowan Rowntree, Greg McPherson, and David Nowak -- "We stand a great chance of seeing a return of the stately and valuable American elm" : rebirth of an iconic tree? -- "I never saw such a bug in my life" : attack of the Asian long-horned beetles -- "On that branch was a four-inch green shoot with leaves" : Ground Zero survivor trees -- "I was surprised it was so aggressive" : waging war on the emerald ash borer -- "Putting in an urban forest instead of a storm drain" : high-tech meets a million trees -- "Help restore a lost piece of American history" : return of the elm -- "Oh, my God! They're really here" : further conquests of the Asian beetles -- "A tree is shaped by its experiences" : the survivor trees -- Afterword. "The answer is urban forests."