{"id":7,"date":"2012-10-31T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/replacing-the-trees-lost-in-the-goderich-tornado\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T20:04:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T20:04:11","slug":"replacing-the-trees-lost-in-the-goderich-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/replacing-the-trees-lost-in-the-goderich-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing The Trees Lost in the Goderich Tornado…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is Halloween already!\u00a0 Geez – where has the time gone???\u00a0 We thought the Spring was busy – nobody prepared us for the Fall!\u00a0 We have been busy this past month selecting and digging large tree specimens for the Town of Goderich.\u00a0 A little over a year ago the most powerful tornado to hit the province in years swept through the southwestern Ontario town of Goderich, killing one person and devastating the picturesque community on the shore of Lake Huron.\u00a0 Century-old buildings, churches and homes were either damaged or destroyed as well as many of the old trees.\u00a0 Winds of roughly 280 km\/h carved a path about 500 metres wide through the town’s centre – right through the downtown core.\u00a0 In the downtown core is the Court House Square that was home to hundreds of large trees.\u00a0 Only 3 remain.\u00a0 It has taken the community over year to generate a master plan and start the re-building the town.\u00a0 That is where we come in – we are replacing some of the trees in the town square.\u00a0 But they couldn’t be just any trees there had to be large specimens to re-create the canopy that was once there.\u00a0 The trees will range anywhere between 30 – 50 feet and will require a large crane to to lift them.\u00a0 They will be moved into the Town of Goderich on large flatbed trucks – some of them will only fit one per truck.\u00a0 Quite an effort was put into selecting the trees through the Director of Operations and Parks Superintendent of the Town of Goderich, as well as Landscape Architect based out of Toronto.\u00a0 Most of the trees are native to Southern Ontario and include Oaks, Maples, Chestnuts to name a few. I have includes some pictures of the tagging and digging process and will be updating frequently – here is the beginning of a great project that we are so happy to be involved with…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Black Oak Tagged<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dawn Redwood being drum strung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Freemannii Maples<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Kentucky Coffee Tree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Beginning to dig Pin Oaks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Showing the proceedure….<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Tagging Red Sunset Maples<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Scarlet Oak Tagged<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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More Scarlet Oaks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Birch Trees Tagged<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Red Oak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Add caption<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Blue Beech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Green Vase Zelkovas Tagged<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Digging of the Elms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Elms at the end of the day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Kentucky Coffee Trees after digging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Elms beig dug<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Starting of another day of digging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Root ball of the Dawn Redwood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Pin Oaks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Finishing up the Pin Oaks…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is Halloween already!\u00a0 Geez – where has the time gone???\u00a0 We thought the Spring was busy – nobody prepared us for the Fall!\u00a0 We have been busy this past month selecting and digging large tree specimens for the Town … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21],"tags":[35,47,15,49,34,17],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goderich","category-large-trees-2","tag-birch","tag-goderich","tag-large-trees","tag-maple","tag-oaks","tag-tree-moving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paohorticultural.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}