This just in from Gary Tipler, Madison’s pre-eminent historic preservationist:<\/p>\n
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Preserving and Enhancing the Urban Forest<\/strong><\/p>\n 6:30 p.m., Wed., Sept. 23, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, 953 Jenifer at Brearly<\/p>\n \n The program will review Milwaukee’s successful program for urban forest protection during street construction projects and discuss Madison’s current procedures and urban forestry program with Madison’s City Engineering staff and City Forester. Historically, the street trees as shade trees have helped define the city’s historic landscape and should be protected.<\/p>\n \n Free and open to the public.<\/p>\n \n Sponsors: <\/strong>Marquette Neighborhood Association<\/a><\/strong> and, <\/strong>Friends of Historic Third Lake Ridge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Preserving and Enhancing the Urban Forest: Do our most majestic street trees always have to be felled during road construction? The Milwaukee experience says no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,11,452],"tags":[456,457,1320,462,458,459,184,461,455,454,460,453],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-efficient-places","category-environment","category-places-that-dont-suck","category-urban-designplanninggeography","tag-city-engineering","tag-city-forester","tag-environment","tag-friends-of-historic-third-lake-ridge","tag-gary-tipler","tag-historic-landscape","tag-madison-wisconsin","tag-marquette-neighborhood-association","tag-milwaukee","tag-preservation","tag-street-trees","tag-urban-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}