This week my partner and I finally started inputting public trees into Tree Plotter. The blocks we covered were blocks 1003, 1002, 1001, 1006, 1004, and 1007. We had planned to also cover blocks 1009, and 1005 however we had to reschedule doing these blocks for another day. Among the blocks we covered the White Ash tree was found to be the most common tree found in this region with 28 trees. Tied for second place was the Green Ash and the Pin Oak tree with 9 trees each. Finally in third place was the Kwanzan Cherry tree with a count of 7 trees. In total we cataloged 92 public trees in this area of South Orange. There were 6 trees that were either dead, stumps, or species of tree that Tree Plotter did not recognize like the Autumn Blaze Red Maple. Few of the trees were young trees with tree guards. Many of the blocks also had sides without any sidewalks which caused some confusion to determine if trees found on these locations were public trees or not. Ultimately we decided to not include trees in these situations after seeking advice. Below are the blocks we covered which were 1003, 1002, 1001, 1006, 1004, and 1007.
I must add that we also included block 1000 because it is part of census tract 190 and we might as well incorporate that block so that the entire eastern side of tract 190 can be documented by the end of the semester. Below I will include the count of the most prevalent trees in this region. For more information on all the trees in this region visit https://pg-cloud.com/shu/ and search for the area between North Wyoming Ave and North Ridgewood Rd towards the north of South Orange.
