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Providing community officials and allied agencies with the organizational and technical ability to effectively manage the trees along streets, within parks, and on public grounds.

State Urban Forestry Coordinator: Drew Todd
614-265-6707

Division of Forestry
2045 Morse Rd.
Building H1.
Columbus, OH 43229

Sweetgum - Liquidambar styraciflua
Cleveland Area Planted: 1956
1341-1333 Gumwood Site: 7' Tree Lawn

1971 Comments
The trees are growing well and are uniform in habit. However, they will have to be limbed up to prevent interference with pedestrian and vehicular traffic even though this is a wide tree lawn. These trees have the typical formal pyramidal shape of this species when young.

...as the street appeared in 1997

1997 Comments
Storms took out most of the original trees in the planting according to residents. The remaining trees have a significant number of surface roots and some sidewalk damage.
Thirty-eight percent of the overall planting survived (6 of 16 trees).
1997 data on the table are based on four trees.
 
Project Data
1967
1968
1969
1970
1997
Height
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17.7'
18.3'
42.3'
Caliper
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3.7"
4.3"
18.0"
Spread
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9.2'
9.5'
39.5'