[MAIPC] USBG looking for invasive species to cut for 'sculpture' - updated

[Kathleen Michels]

 How about Bradford Pear? There is PLENTY of that!!  All over the roadsides
and displacing other trees in Parks
-kathy
Kathleen Michels, PhD
michelskm2016 at gmail.com
301-922-3816


On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:39 PM Mims, Ray <rmims at aoc.gov> wrote:

> The United States Botanic Garden is hoping to have Patrick Dougherty build
> a sculpture on site this fall *http://www.stickwork.net
> <http://www.stickwork.net>*.  We need to find a location for USBG Staff
> and Volunteers to cut invasive species saplings in late September. Possible
> species include paper mulberry, tree-of-heaven, and Siberian elm, Norway
> maple (or if you know of other places where thinning is needed noninvasive
> willows, maples, sweet-gum, possibly ash and elm would work).  The saplings
> must be fresh and green and flexible.  He needs saplings in GREAT QUANTITY
> in roughly three sizes as described below:
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> ·        300 LARGE sticks should be 2 inches to 2 ½ inches in diameter at
> the base and as long as possible, at least 25 feet long.
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> ·        MEDIUM sticks should be 1inch to 1 ½ inches in diameter over the
> length and approximately fifteen long.  Longer is wonderful if available.
>
> ·        SMALL sticks should be finger-size from ¼ inch to ½ inch in
> diameter at the base and range from 4 feet to six feet in length.
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> The overall amount of material should fill two 5-ton trucks or one tractor
> trailer load, with 300 LARGE sticks, and the remainder divided evenly; that
> is, 50% comprised of MEDIUM and 50% comprised of SMALL sticks.
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> If you have an idea of an area that might be available or a suggestion of
> who we might contact, please let Devin Dotson, copied here, know.
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> Many thanks for your assistance and any idea you might have,
>
>
> Ray
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> Ray Mims
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