Tree Composition and Seedling Recruitment in Urban and Rural Forests

In 1993, Dr. Nancy Broshot randomly located 25 permanent study sites in Forest Park in Portland, Oregon to examine the effects of urbanization on forest health. Plant community structure was examined. In 2003, Dr. Broshot reexamined the plant communities at each site and found significantly higher tree mortality and reduced recruitment (young trees) in all areas of the park. Many seedlings that had been present in 1993 were absent in 2003. In 2013, a 20-year follow up study of the tree community was conducted. Although the rate of tree mortality had dropped, recruitment of seedlings and saplings was still low. A series of lichen studies completed at each site in 2013 indicated high levels of nitrogenous air pollution at all sites in the park. In 2014, three control sites along a gradient of air quality in the Mount Hood National Forest above Estacada, Oregon were added to the study. Plant community variables were measured in the same manner as in Forest Park. We found significantly more live trees, saplings and seedlings at the control sites than at sites in Forest Park. We also found significantly fewer dead trees at control sites. Indeed, we had more seedlings at the three control sites than at all 25 of the Forest Park sites. We believe the low level of recruitment may be due to nitrogenous deposition from air pollution in Forest Park; we are waiting for results from collected soil samples to evaluate this hypothesis

Pengembangan Aktivitas Wisata di Taman Hutan Raya Ir. H. Djuanda Bandung Jawa Barat

Djuanda forest park based RIPPDA Prov. Jabar in 2005 isone tourist attraction that supports the development of mountainousnature of urban and tourist areas Bandung education. At this time,tourism activities in the forest park can be said Djuanda less variedand not utilize the full potensial optimaly. This is evident from theclose of the management of some the activities alredy underway.Closing the management of this activity is not offset by the newtourist activities, which led to the visitors who come today are lesslikely to have the option of doing tourist activities. Related to theabove, in support of the position Djuanda forest park as a touristattraction mountainous landscape that supports the development ofurban and tourist areas Bandung education is deemed necessary tocarry out the development of tourism activities

Dedication of the George H. Himes Park

"On April 10, 1935, the city council of Portland, Oregon, renamed the land formerly known as Fulton Park. Hereafter this tract of some thirty-four acres will be known as 'The George H. Himes Park' in honor of Oregon's grand old man of history.

The New Illinois Marriage Law*

View looking east on Heriot Row in Edinburgh, Scotland. Writer Robert Louis Stevenson once lived in the house marked with the plaque in the left foreground, with the series of little balconies. The street swerving left at far end of Heriot Row is Abercrombie Place. The trees mark the edge of a private park. (1 October 1950

Schlanger Park Civic Club Scrapbook, 1955-1986

Newspaper clippings, club bulletins, membership lists, obituaries of members and other miscellaneous materials relating to the Schlanger Park Civic Club. Schlanger Park in Pittsburg, Kansas, was created by land donated from A. H. Schlanger in 1929. The movement to turn the land into a park led to the creation of the Schlanger Park Civic Club, which was city federated in 1935. The Schlanger Park Civic Club Scrapbook is primarily comprised of newspaper clippings, club bulletins, membership lists, obituaries of members and other miscellaneous materials relating to the Schlanger Park Civil Club. It is unknown who created the scrapbook.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/1368/thumbnail.jp