This week we tried to catch up with our schedule however the weather did not cooperate with us on the day we could meet up. The only block we completed was block 1008 however it took us about 2 hours to complete this block which is the largest block on our schedule. In total there were 39 trees we documented and 11 of them were White Ash trees. It is important to note that the ash trees seem to always make up around 1/3 of the total trees in an area that we have encountered so far. The ash trees also seem to be the most evenly spread out especially when analyzing block 1008.
Obviously the most common tree in this block was the ash tree taking up almost 30% with the Northern Red Oak trailing behind. The White Ash tree is the most evenly spread out tree in comparison with the Red Oak tree where most of them can only be found on one side of the block. This is telling how the history of tree management in South Orange was not the best but now with tools like Tree Plotter can be assessed and improved.
The above chart shows the ash trees taking up about 40% of the total trees in all the areas we covered so far. One interesting aspect to note is the Kwanzan Cherry tree has risen to second place in the total amount of trees. This could be because of the unique beautiful aesthetic these trees give off. Another important aspect is that there is a vast gap between first and second place. Next week we will catch up to the other blocks and will catalog the trees into TreePlotter.
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