BUCKINGHAM POND
PARK ON LIFE SUPPORT/

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http://lonerangeralbany.blogspot.com/


                    Joe Sullivan

NOW IS TIME TO
BEAUTIFY YOUR
PROPERTY AND
NEIGHBORHOOD

Plant trees/shrubs to beautify
and improve your property
and neighborhood.

Neighbors can get together
ordering/sharing plants
from the following sources.

Buckingham Pond Conservancy
can do the same for the Pond
Park.

Review. Select and order now.

Select plants appropriate for
specific sites. Avoid planting
tall growing trees under power
lines. Dig carefully so as not
to cut or damage underground
utility lines.

Don't plant too close to homes.
Visualize what space a mature
tree/shrub will occupy.

Plant only salt tolerant trees
at curbsides.

http://www.albanycounty.com/uploadedFiles/Programs_and_Services/Health_and_Human_Services/Quality_of_Life/Soil_and_Water_Conservation/Programs/2012_Tree_Shrub_Order.pdf

http://www.rensco.com/pdfs/hdi/2012ArborGreen.pdf

 

http://www.saratogacountyny.gov/upload/2012020212.pdf

 

 

Schenectady County S & W Conservation District may

also have offerings.

 

 

If you look around the pond park and

your local streets you will observe

that many trees are dead or dying

due to age, vehicle exhausts, road

salt, lawn chemicals and other factors.

 

Don't wait until the pond park

or your street becames an urban

wasteland.

 

Plant young  trees and shrubs now

in the pond park, on front lawns

in back yards.

 

They will , in time, provide beauty

shade, habitat for song birds, winter

windbreaks, reduce erosion and

combat increasing urban air

pollution resulting from growing

vehicle traffic and excessive use

of road salt.

 

The pond park, your properties

and our neighborhood will be

more valuable and the quality

of our environment and lives

will be the better.

 

                             Joe Sullivan

WHITE DEATH

Took Mick and Paddy for short
walks tonight.

The air was heavy with dried
windblown road salt. The walks
roads and grass were laden with
dry road salt.

Not good for man nor beast to
be out and about as long as
these conditions exist.

We need some good heavy rains
to clean the air and wash away
all the salt grime.

The White death is sure to be
increasing asthma and other
respiratory problems as well
as increasing blood pressures
of those who breathe the air.

Drumming up business for
local hospitals?

When are people going to
say enough?

                     Joe Sullivan