<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I agree-this is a plentiful invasive. Not sure how you get permission to cut down along roadsides. It is very plentiful along route 7 and route 267 in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties. <div><br></div><div>A word of caution about Tree of Heaven: cutting causes multiple trees to sprout from the root system. This species needs specialized technique with herbicide. So that is not a good one for your needs. <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Diana Carter</div><div><br>On Apr 29, 2019, at 4:25 PM, Kathleen Michels <<a href="mailto:michelskm2016@gmail.com">michelskm2016@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> How about Bradford Pear? There is PLENTY of that!! All over the roadsides and displacing other trees in Parks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">-kathy</div><div><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Kathleen Michels, PhD<div><a href="mailto:michelskm2016@gmail.com" target="_blank">michelskm2016@gmail.com</a></div><div>301-922-3816</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:39 PM Mims, Ray <<a href="mailto:rmims@aoc.gov">rmims@aoc.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14pt">The United States Botanic Garden is hoping to have Patrick Dougherty build a sculpture on site this fall
<u><a href="http://www.stickwork.net" target="_blank">http://www.stickwork.net</a></u>. 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
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14pt">MEDIUM sticks should be 1inch to 1 ½ inches in diameter over the length and approximately fifteen long. Longer is wonderful if available. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14pt">Many thanks for your assistance and any idea you might have,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ray Mims<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:rgb(56,86,35);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">where you are -
</span></i></b><b><span style="color:rgb(56,86,35);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Theodore Roosevelt<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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