ekarl17 Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Transforming from the katy praire to the next heavily wooded memorial area. I am currently planning in donating 10,000 decidious trees to my neighborhood, to make it heavily wooded in twenty years, but I don't really know if this is going to work!. What can we do "katy residents" to transform the katy praire homes to the next memorial area. How many trees exactly per each house. Let me give you guys some examples:*5000-6000 square feet Lot Home*6000-8000 square feet Lot Home*8000-more square feet Lot Home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 (edited) Transforming from the katy praire to the next heavily wooded memorial area. I am currently planning in donating 10,000 decidious trees to my neighborhood, to make it heavily wooded in twenty years, but I don't really know if this is going to work!. What can we do "katy residents" to transform the katy praire homes to the next memorial area. How many trees exactly per each house. Let me give you guys some examples:*5000-6000 square feet Lot Home*6000-8000 square feet Lot Home*8000-more square feet Lot HomeIgnore the backyards. Put all your focus on major thoroughfares and front yards, where the curb appeal can have the most impact.If your goal is to create a Memorial-like area, then you'll need to drive a representative set of streets in Memorial and determine the average number of trees per hundred feet, then drive those same kinds of streets in the Katy prairie area, and determine the same figure. Multiply the difference by the number of feet (in hundreds) of streets in any given subdivision, and that'll yield the number of trees that that subdivision will need to achieve your goals. You'll have to do the counts twice--once for neighborhood streets and once for major thoroughfares.Although it is an astoundingly-generous donation, you may find that 10,000 won't get you as far as you'd like. In that case, you may try putting more effort on major thoroughfares than on private property. Just be sure to get approval and to put the trees far enough back from the street that future widening doesn't require that they be knocked down.EDIT: Oh, and don't forget to put them close enough to neighborhood streets that they're less likely to be knocked down if the area starts to see redevelopment decades into the future. Edited November 11, 2006 by TheNiche Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 (edited) Yeah i would concentrate on the front yards. Stay away from Silver Maples and Arizona ash trees. I would get a good variety of different trees just in case a disease strikes a particular species. Google KPRC 950 and look for Randy Lemmons Garden Line link. Edited November 11, 2006 by Marty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston1stWordOnTheMoon Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Forget about it. The new west side airport is going in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfootball Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 (edited) That's a very generous donation. I would imagine it would run between $100,000 at the cheapest to $1 million or more to donate that many trees. Edited November 11, 2006 by mrfootball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmainguy Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Have you talked to these people: http://www.katyprairie.org/home.html ? It seems that would be a good place to start since it's-you know-a prairie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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