{"id":15862,"date":"2021-04-07T00:37:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=15862"},"modified":"2021-04-06T19:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:51:27","slug":"main-street-maples-deemed-heritage-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/07\/main-street-maples-deemed-heritage-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Street Maples Deemed \u2018Heritage\u2019 Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hailey Tree Committee has reviewed and confirmed a nomination of six trees to its Heritage Tree Program. The nomination, made by Ralph Harris, are of public trees in the sidewalk adjacent to his Main Street property. The maples were planted when the adjacent Harris\u00a0 apartments were constructed. Five of the six trees are about the same age, planted circa 1940. The sixth maple was replaced after a highway resurfacing project damaged the\u00a0 original tree.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harris described the uniqueness of these trees in his application:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSome twenty years ago, an arborist from Oregon stopped each fall to collect maple\u00a0 seeds from these trees. He was impressed that\u00a0 this variety had survived at this elevation with\u00a0 the low annual rainfall, particularly since\u00a0 minimal and inconsistent hand watering was the norm. He wanted to grow and transplant\u00a0 this variety in other locations. When, in 1967,\u00a0 I returned from Cal State in Long Beach,\u00a0 there were discussions underway at the Hailey\u00a0 Chamber of Commerce of ways to improve\u00a0 the look of Main Street. These maples were one of the major considerations to increase tree development along Main Street.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Main Street trees increased in importance again in 1994, when the city installed\u00a0 sidewalks the full length of Main Street and\u00a0 included dozens of trees in every block. The Harris apartments maple trees became the standard by which the other trees were designed within the sidewalk space. These trees dynamically characterize our town with\u00a0 their natural beauty and spirited winter lights.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hailey Tree Committee has reviewed and confirmed a nomination of six trees to its Heritage Tree Program. The nomination, made by Ralph Harris, are of public trees in the sidewalk adjacent to his Main Street property. The maples were planted when the adjacent Harris\u00a0 apartments were constructed. Five of the six trees are about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-in-brief","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15864,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions\/15864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}