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Treescapes <br />Comm'uiuty Forestry ConsuliAnts <br />1214 Third Avenue NE <br />Buffalo, Minnesota 55313 <br />e <br />(612) 682-9562 <br />Voice & Fax <br />DATE: <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />RE: <br />June 16,1999 <br />Paul Weinberger <br />Assistant Zoning Administrator <br />City of Orono <br />P.O. Box 66 <br />Crystal Bay, MN 65323-0066 <br />Peter J. Bedker, Ph.D. <br />Consulting Community Forester <br />Luzaich Restoration Plan Parameters <br />2490 Old Beach Road <br />Application #2492 <br />The following are parameters that should be used to design and evaluate restoration plans for the Luzaich <br />residence at 2490 Old Beach Road. They were prepared to meet your stated desire objectives to restore <br />the lakeshore to wooded, natural appearing landscape in as short of time as possible. These param.eters <br />were developed at your request and are based on on-site observations and measurements made June 9, <br />1999 and June 14,1999. <br />OBSERVAVONS AND BACKGROUHO <br />The April 19,1999 survey (Coffin & Gronberg, Inc) of the property identified a total of 16 trees with stump <br />diameters of 12 inches or greater that were removed from the rear (lake side) of the residence. On-site <br />investigations identified an American linden stump (21 inch diameter) located 32.5 feet northeast of the <br />northeast corner of the Luzaich residence that was not indicated on toe survey. Species composition of <br />canopy trees was as follows: 47% sugar maple [Acer sdcchatum), 47% American linden (77///a emericana) <br />and 6% northern red oak (Quercus lubra). Understory trees included sapling and seedlings of these <br />species as well as ironwood [Ostiya virginiana) and American elm (Ulmus americana). <br />The trees removed were a remnant of a mature sugar maple - basswood foresL The height of remaining <br />trees on adjacent properties to the are 80 to 85 feet <br />Tree diameters at 4.5 feet above the ground (DBH) were estimated based on measurements of stump <br />height and diameters. An estimated 6,950 in’ of cross-sectional a'ea of trees were removed. The total <br />value of the trees removed was estimated to be $48,100 using methods established by the Council of <br />Landscape Appraisers (1992) and toe Minnesota Society of Arboriculture Plant Appraisal Committee <br />Plaut Hcalih Care Management ■ Tree Management Plans ■ Tree ln%-entories ■ Hazard Tree Assessments