Land & Environmental Section :: Page 26

• Choice of replacement trees complex

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 2, 2012

  “The right tree for the right location” is a phrase oft repeated by arborists dispensing long-term landscaping advice. It was used several times last week by those focused on deciding how to replace the trees that line the downtown.

• If pears are removed, what should succeed them?

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 25, 2012

  

  Local arborists suggested a few species of trees that might possibly be effective replacements for the Bradford pears downtown.

• Village want to have their trees and defend them too

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 16, 2012

  

  Last week villagers protested a plan to remove the Bradford pear trees downtown.

• Village Council— TLT seeks preservation funds

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 5, 2012

  At their June 18 meeting, Village Council members heard an appeal from Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT, asking that Village government help preserve Glen Helen.

• Group urges setting precedent in opposing oil, gas drilling

  By Megan Bachman

  Yellow Springs may be the first community in Ohio to ban oil and gas drilling and waste wells within its municipal limits using a rights-based ordinance.

• Fracking forum to push for YS ban

  By Megan BachmanJune 26, 2012

  

  Environmental experts will share ways Yellow Springs can avoid contamination from oil and gas drilling and fracking waste wells at a forum on Saturday.

• GMHA gardens on chopping block

  By Megan BachmanJune 21, 2012

  

  Patricia High is dejected because she has until July 1 to transplant most of her beautiful garden at her Lawson Place unit, or the Greene Metropolitan Housing Authority will remove the plantings.

• Stalled greenspace funds released

  By Megan BachmanJune 20, 2012

  

  Thanks to the tireless efforts of Krista Magaw of the Tecumseh Land Trust, Don Hollister of Ohio League of Conservation Voters and several other environmental groups, Clean Ohio’s open space and agricultural easement purchase programs are once again fully funded.

• Flush with water— Thinking conservation amidst plenty

  By Megan BachmanJune 14, 2012

  

  Ask villagers about their experience with Yellow Springs water and the stories will flow.

• Plan dropped; wellhead likely safe

  By Lauren HeatonMay 31, 2012

  Sometime in 1988, a host of volatile organic chemicals were found deep in the aquifer that feeds the Village’s municipal drinking water wells. Around the same time, the federal government mandated safeguarding the quality of the groundwater.