towards several objectives, including education, volunteerism, stewardship, and neighborhood tree planting.
Their goal is to plant 5,000,000 trees over the next 20
years in an effort to improve air and water quality and
bring the economic, environmental, and social benefits
of trees to residents, property owners and businesses.
Later that evening, I was introduced to the City Council,
which presented me with a proclamation welcoming me
to the city and congratulated both Joe and me on our
selection for the Municipal Arborist Exchange between
our cities. It was a very rewarding experience for me.
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Early the next morning I accompanied Joe to his
regular business meeting with his staff over breakfast,
where Joe and his team discussed the week's work,
employee and equipment issues, and planning. The
opportunities and challenges of our profession, it
seems, are the same in the USA as in Brazil and elsewhere in the world.
Joe took me to the small town of Lodi, south of
Sacramento, for a visit to Boething Treeland Farms, a
large wholesale container nursery. There I was able to
meet with part-owner Haydi Danielson and Manager Jeff
Gravish for a one-hour driving tour of the nursery, passing greenhouses, shade houses, planting and loading
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Young Sacramento street tree • Photo by Joe Benassini
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