Community Involvement
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provides services to the community above and beyond
the commercial services for which it is renowned. To
name a few: there are radio talk shows; published
topical information and articles; an informative
newsletter; agriculture, horticulture and urban
forestry event participation; non-profit public
education programs and consortiums; public-sector
lobbying for tougher "green" laws and legislation;
and many, many more.
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Community/Regional Tree News
will provide news articles we feel to be important
regarding regional tree issues in the Dallas-Fort Worth
Metroplex. If you see a tree news item that relates to
tree issues within the DFW regional area, please send us
an email with the link or the complete article. Your
name will be noted as finding and sending the article.
Our goal is to get these issues in front of as many
technically interested and economically motivated people
in the area as we can. |
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How and When to Plant Trees  Many
homeowners think spring when they think about planting
trees. But gardening experts consider fall the best time
to add trees to the landscape. Trees planted now get a
head start on establishing roots before summer returns.
Arborist and Master Gardener Steve Houser of
Arborilogical Services, Inc. shows us how easy it is.
Anyone can have lasting, beautiful results if your tree
is planted correctly. Steve is representing the
Dallas Master Gardener Organization of the Texas Cooperative Extension in Dallas
County.
Our friends at the Dallas Morning News not only wrote
the community interest story, How and When to
Plant Trees, but also recorded a video for
you all to review over and over again to be sure you
have the basics on proper tree planting. The Dallas
Morning News has been most gracious in the support of
these types of efforts. Many of the trees you see around
the Dallas area would not be there without their
support. When you think of the DMN, think green and
think trees! Many thanks to Rick Rosen and Juan Garcia
for putting this story together.
How and When to Plant Trees Video Clip
If you liked this story, tell the Dallas Morning News.
You can send a Letter to the
Editor. Increased response to this type of article will encourage
them do more stories like this.
KDFW Fox4 Treasure Hunt at Discovery Gardens
Steve Houser and UFAC Committee Members were involved
as volunteers for the KDFW Fox4 Treasure Hunt at the
Fair Park Discovery Gardens the last weekend of the
State Fair of Texas. Children from around the community
were treated to a scavenger and treasure hunt where the
items that they sought or found were a learning exercise
about our local environment and how to protect it.
The kids won prizes, received all sorts of handouts and
got an education that will last a lifetime.
KDFW Fox4 News has gracious provided a couple of
video clips show a little flavor of the event.
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Learn How to Climb a Tree with Steve
Houser |
 Sterling
P. Robertson, Best Southwest Dallas Morning News
Neighborsgo editor, learns how to climb a tree in Dallas
with Arborist Steve Houser in this
streaming video.
Neighborsgo is a
publication of the Dallas Morning News' parent company
for local communities.
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Community Activity List |
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Community involvement
activities that are not highlighted in paragraphs below
on this web page or other pages in this site are listed
in the
Arborilogical Services
Community Activity List. Click on the link above
to view the list and read about many more areas where
Arborilogical employees get involved with their
communities and communities' issues.
Many of these are speaking
engagements that involve the public and local small
businesses where our employees can share there knowledge
in open forums benefiting the community, business and
individuals directly by solving real real problems or
just doing manual labor. |
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2007 Mayor's
Challenge a Big Success
Dallas Area Arbor Day Celebration
a Big Draw for Challengers
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Courtesy
Turtle Creek People Newspaper |
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Miller was challenged by the mayors of
Irving and Lancaster but still the
champ! |
Streaming Video of the "Go Climb
a Tree" Challenge courtesy of the
Dallas Morning News - video by Michael
Ainsworth of the DMN. |
Mayor Miller performs
her 2nd annual climb in support of
Dallas' trees.. |
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 Seeding
the Value of Dallas' Trees
08:48 AM CDT on Sunday, April 15, 2007
By Bob Miller / The Dallas Morning News
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"A healthy, thriving urban forest is critical in
attaining a stable
ecological balance,
improving the quality of
life and enhancing the
environmental processes of
air purifi-cation, oxygen
regeneration and ground
water recharge."
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Steve Houser,
Arborilogical Services
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 Read the Dallas Morning News
article detailing the fundraising
campaign of the Dallas Urban
Forestry Advisory committee for the
"Greening of Dallas".
The council is a non-profit organization
that deals with urban forestry issues in the
Dallas area. Steve Houser, president of
Arborilogical Services, is the chairman.
Visit their web site at
http://www.dallastrees.org/.
One of the many goals established by the
committee is to establish citywide standards
for planting trees, caring for them and
training city workers. Another goal is to
encourage developers to build around trees
and citizens to seek the advice of the
Dallas urban forester and the Urban Forest
Advisory Committee.
Could Developers be
Removing Too Many Trees in Dallas?
What do you think? Respond to this Dallas
Morning News article,
Dallas Tree Removal Worries Some. Email
it to friends and colleagues, then sound off
by stating your opinion in a Letter to the
DMN Editor. Be sure to mention the article.
This is a hot topic in more ways than one.
If too many trees are removed, the cooling
effect of the urban forest canopy is lost,
thus during the summer months our
temperatures could sore even higher. Then
there is the decreased capacity to filter
pollutants from our air with fewer trees.
What will that do for our Clean Air Act
liability with the Federal Government? After
you've done the foot work, here's a
PDF copy of the story for
reference. The Dallas Urban Forestry Advisory
Committee
has answered to this and other issues. (See
more stories like this on the
Community and
Regional News page.)
 Letters to the Dallas Morning News Editor
The Bob Miller story has spawned
Letters
to the Editor from the citizens of
Dallas regarding the area's declining tree
population. Click the link to view some of
these letters. Please write the Dallas
Morning news yourself to let them know how
you feel about this and similar issues and
how you appreciate them covering these types
of topics. They are in the fight with us.
See their recent editorial in support of Green
Dallas.
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  Trees of the Metroplex 2009
Calendar Contest
Interested in the preservation of our
local trees? Champion or historic trees? Are you an
aspiring photographer that would like to see your work
in print and viewed by hundreds of people of like mind?
Then the Trees of the Metroplex Calendar Contest is for
you. Our friends at the Cross Timbers Urban Forestry
Council are sponsoring the contest for their
annual calendar. Visit their web site for all the rules,
information and locations of the trees. Happy shooting!
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"Ask
Andrea" Talk Radio Show
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Steve Houser was a guest on Andrea
Ridout's locally syndicated talk radio show "Ask Andrea", geared toward the
Home Improvement Buff and Do-It-Yourselfer. Steve gave
homeowner's of the Metroplex tips on tree pruning, watering
and general tree care. Using radio as a medium of
information broadcasting, Arborilogical Services reached
hundreds if not thousands of the region's populace with
useful tree knowledge they would get nowhere else.
Of course there is no substitute for an
experienced certified arborist! The show aired on
August 5, 2006.
Andrea's show broadcast's Saturday's at 12:00 noon on
nationally syndicated ABC radio affiliates.
Click the
Microphone
for the Program
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Texas AgriLife Extension
Service Farm Day
(Note: Texas Cooperative
Extension has changed their legal name to Texas AgriLife
Extension Service)
Steve Houser, Owner and president of
Arborilogical Services volunteered his taken the time to
teach inner-city youth the value of trees and urban
forestry at the 2007
Texas AgriLife Extension Service 2007 Farm Day
held at the Fair Park Agriculture Coliseum this past
summer. Since 1997, Farm Day has reached over 40.000
inner city youth and it continues to grow each year.
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See You at the Next
FARM DAY!
May, 2009
We Support The Local
Media
Arborilogical Services and its employees
have a commitment to the communities in which they work,
live and enjoy life. This commitment is evident in the
impact that they have made in Dallas and the surrounding
areas. This impact and the environmental, social and
political issues surrounding them could have no better
mouthpiece than the local print, radio and television
media.
Steve Houser, not one to miss a
promotional opportunity, has wafted through the air
waves on local television quite often teaching the local
citizenry the wisdom of looking after their trees and
the "how to" of doing it. See the
In the News page. |
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