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2010 NEMF Meeting topics and dates Date: March 18th Speaker: Mark Duntemann and Jim Tresouthick Location: the Morton Arboretum Topic: Urban Forestry Initiatives Date: April 13th Speaker: Fred Miller Location: the Morton Arboretum Topic: 2010 Pest update Date: May 20th Speaker: Richard Babica Location: The Village of West Dundee Topic: Infiltration Gallery Project Date: August 19th Speaker: Jim Semelka Location: Village of Oak Park Topic: Tree spacing presentation and tour Date: September 30th Speaker: Mark Duntemann Location: Village of Mount Propect Public Works Dept. 1700 West Central Rd --enter through far west of building. Topic: Tree Appraisals Date: October 21st Speaker: Sandy Clark and Edith Makra Location: Village of Mount Prospect Public Works Dept. 1700 West Central Rd The Wood Utilization Team aims to demonstrate the value of the urban ash wood resource and create market opportunities. The Team is facilitating connections among the many sectors and industries to help capture more high value wood products from the urban forest. A new effort in collaboration with other states is promoting branding to help move urban wood into green building initiatives. Topic: Wood Utilization Team Update and Mount Prospect Demonstration Project Date: November 18th Speaker: Bryant Scharenbroch Location: The Morton Arboretum Topic: Soil modification on parkways to promote new tree growth Date: December 16th Speaker: Dan Price Location: Village of Lombard Topic: An in-depth presentation about Lombard’s tree mapping program Date: January TBA Speaker: Merle Turner Location: Com Ed Office in Oakbrook Topic: Com Ed is performing community outreach to local towns and will inform our members about their research in Lake County and inform us about some volunteer opportunities that they hosted with communities this year and some possible opportunities for other communities for next year.
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