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A Day in the Life: Arborist shares experiences caring for trees at CSU 22 Dec, 2020
Steve McCarthy
Steve McCarthy has been a State Classified employee at Colorado State University for the past 10 years, working as an arborist for Facilities Management in Outdoor Services (Grounds).
McCarthy’s days are spent keeping the trees healthy and safe for the campus community, structurally pruning and “raising” trees the process of taking off the lower limbs. McCarthy one of three State Classified employees who are International Society of Arboriculture certified arborists at CSU Facilities Management also removes dangerous tree limbs caused by storm damage.
The best part of McCarthy’s job he said involves grinding stumps to make space for tree replacements and planting trees. He said he finds it rewarding to introduce new tree species onto campus, helping to fulfill the CSU Campus Arboretum’s main goal of expanding tree diversity.
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Celebrating 10 years of the Big Trees project
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3 A Bodhi tree near Klong Ku Muang, behind the Supreme Court, which the Big Trees Project helped convince the Defence Ministry and City Hall to keep. Picture courtesy of Big Tree Project
The Big Trees Project is celebrating its 10th birthday this month. In 2010, a group of young people was dismayed by the lack of green space in Bangkok. While the city had advanced exponentially in infrastructure, the growth of public parks and urban flora paled in comparison. It felt stagnant. With a wild dream of creating more healthy green spaces within the concrete capital that would be accessible to anyone, we banded together as the Big Trees Project to work on giving all a quality of life that was not being met by just malls and markets.