{"id":6313,"date":"2020-05-01T03:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2020-05-01T03:19:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:19:02","slug":"street-tree-program-ramps-up-after-autumn-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/street-tree-program-ramps-up-after-autumn-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Street tree program ramps up after autumn rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

City of Newcastle is capitalising on autumn rain by planting hundreds of street trees across Newcastle as part of the Living Streets Program to expand the City\u2019s urban forest.
\nCrews have been busy digging holes on street verges and reserves for around 500 trees – 40 different species – across Wallsend, Adamstown and Adamstown Heights (click here for the\u00a0full list of streets<\/a>)
\nAround 1,000 street trees will be planted this year as part of the City\u2019s commitment to deliver cleaner air, reduced stormwater runoff, habitat for local biodiversity, more shade and a cooler urban environment.
\n\"LM-and-Cr-Dunn-in-Tyrrell-Street-inside.jpg\"Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes and Ward 4 Cr Jason Dunn planting a tree in Tyrrell Street, Wallsend.<\/sup><\/strong>
\nLord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes, who joined City staff to plant trees along Tyrrell Street Wallsend today, said autumn offered the perfect weather for new plantings and that today\u2019s work followed a council decision to join a global initiative aimed at enhancing nature in and around cities.
\n\u201cWhile most community requests for tree plantings come during Summer when we are all feeling the need for more trees, Summer isn\u2019t the ideal time to plant and establish trees,\u201d Councillor Nelmes said.
\n\u201cThe weather conditions are more favourable at this time of year as it\u2019s cooler and more rain is about.
\n\u201cUnder our Living Streets program and in line with the City\u2019s Urban Forest Policy, we are committed to sustaining and expanding our urban canopy cover, as we know a five per cent increase can reduce summer temperatures by one to two degrees, and that 17 trees will offset the use of one car a year in terms of carbon emissions.
\n\u201cWe want to see more trees and nature in our cities, which is why earlier this week Council voted to accept an invitation to become a pioneer city of the CitiesWithNature initiative aimed at promoting the many benefits of bringing urban communities closer to nature. These include mental and physical health and wellbeing, better social connections, greater liveability, urban cooling and climate change adaptation.
\n\u201cCWN is a unique partnership initiative founded by ICLEI or Local Governments for Sustainability that provides an online platform to connect cities and subnational governments, researchers and urban communities to share, learn from and inspire each other.\u201d
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\nCouncil\u2019s City Greening Services team will complete regular maintenance of the new trees, among 6,000 recently planted across the local government area, carrying out mulching, weeding, watering and formative pruning.
\nThe City is running a series of education activities in conjunction with tree planting, encouraging children during the COVID-19 lockdown to observe animals that visit their favourite tree and write a love letter to it.
\nWard 4 Councillor Jason Dunn said kids were invited to submit a letter and photo of the tree to\u00a0naturalconnection@ncc.nsw.gov.au<\/a>\u00a0to encourage conservatory thinking and see which trees are the most popular across the local government area.
\n\u201cWe want kids to take a moment to visit their favourite tree and stop, watch and listen and then write to us about how many different animals visit the tree, how long they think it\u2019s been here and what could be lost if it was cut down Councillor Dunn said.
\n\u201cAs well as planting trees, we want to educate the next generation about how native and non-native trees support a huge amount of life in urban environments.\u201d
\n\"Pic-by-Astrid.png\"A drawing submitted by Astrid, 7, from Wallsend, of her favourite trees.<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City of Newcastle is capitalising on autumn rain by planting hundreds of street trees across Newcastle as part of the Living Streets Program to expand the City\u2019s urban forest. Crews have been busy digging holes on street verges and reserves for around 500 trees – 40 different species – across Wallsend, Adamstown and Adamstown Heights … Continue reading “Street tree program ramps up after autumn rain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}