Tree Care 7. Ownership and responsibility for trees 8. The Shade Tree Commission and the Township Arborist 1. A property owner who wishes to determine whether a specific tree is a shade tree may obtain this information from the Township Arborist. Continuing improvements are being made in systems for monitoring the performance of trees in order to determine which species are most resistant to various kinds of pollution, space restrictions, and disease.
Neighborhoods vary in degree of development.
Many of the trees which thrive in the open areas of the western suburbs do not survive in congested urban areas. From 1990 through 1992, the Township carried out a special tree program to plant six hundred trees in all fourteen wards of the Township. It is important not to overplant any one kind of tree because a pest's ability to build up to damaging levels increases as the population increases. The Dutch elm disease is the most frightening example of the result of over-population. There are still some trees which were planted, or seeded themselves, along our Township streets more than 100 years ago.