Public Works Provides City Of Fairbury With Comprehensive Municipal Tree Plan

As required by Ordinance §93.090, the Public Works Department provided the City of Fairbury with the Annual Comprehensive Municipal Tree Plan.With the help of the Nebraska Forest Service, the state-wide arboretum, community volunteers, utility departments and the Fairbury Tree Board, the Fairbury Public Works Department has continued to care for all of the City’s trees in accordance with the CTAP (Community Threat Assessment Protocol), Street Tree Plan and Parks Tree Plan provided by the Nebraska Forest Service. Additionally, the city was able to complete an Arbor Day planting, remains an active Tree City USA member and was awarded a $25,000 Community Forestry Inflation Reduction Act grant (IRA) that will remove dead trees and brush in the McNish and City Parks and replace them at a 3:1 ratio throughout the community parks, schools and on some right of ways.As is the Public Works Department’s standard procedure, dead or dangerous trees will be removed and will continue to prune as directed in the Nebraska Forest Service recommendations along with completing the recommended pruning and maintaining wildlife deterrent measures for the young tree stock as necessary in all three of Fairbury’s main parks. McNish ParkIt was noted in the 2017 report and 2020 arboretum review that this park has a good diversity of tree stock and a high number of trees. However, a high number of dense trees can restrict air flow and increase the potential for the spread of disease. For that reason, the parks department continues to thin and remove trees in this park as needed. The IRA grant assisted with removal of 34 trees in the park and the city proposes to plant back approximately 14-20 City ParkAlong with regular maintenance, parks staff are continuing to work on upgrading and expanding the tree species identification in the Fairbury City Park arboretum. Additionally, with the assistance of the IRA grant the city will begin to plant young trees in the city park to replace older tree stock as they age out and is continuing its phased removal and replacement of the older pine trees and brush located in and behind the Cloverleaf Softball Complex. This project will amount to approximately 34-56 new trees planted in the City park Crystal Springs ParkThis park does not qualify for the IRA project however three newly planted trees that did not survive last year’s planting will be replaced by the nursery this spring.

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