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Rooting Habits of White Oak and Sugar Maple (3.102589)
Date: July 11 1974Creator: Doolittle, Jim
Type: Document
Description:Paper discussing the role of topography, the absorbing medium, and other factors on the rooting habits of White Oaks and Sugar Maples.
Extent: 30 sheets
A New Look at Old Friends: Some Ecological Considerations for Tree Selection (draft 2) (3.114620)
Date: 1976Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
Description:This paper discusses the ecological attributes of trees from naturally occurring populations and how that information can help to assess the suitability of trees planted along streets, in parks and in other man-modified situations.
This draft has more extensive pencil edits.
Extent: 7 pages
A New Look at Old Friends: Some Ecological Considerations for Tree Selection (3.114621)
Date: 1976Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
Description:This paper discusses the ecological attributes of trees from naturally occurring populations and how that information can help to assess the suitability of trees planted along streets, in parks and in other man-modified situations.
Note: there are drafts of this paper available as well. This iteration includes a cover letter from George Ware that indicates it is likely the final version.
Extent: 8 pages
A New Look at Old Friends: Some Ecological Considerations for Tree Selection (draft 3) (3.114622)
Date: 1976Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
Description:This paper discusses the ecological attributes of trees from naturally occurring populations and how that information can help to assess the suitability of trees planted along streets, in parks and in other man-modified situations.
This draft has extensive pencil edits and inserts.
Extent: 7 pages
BASELINE POPULATION AND COMMUNITY STATUS FOR RARE PLANT TAXA AT LOOKOUT POINT AND WABASH BREAKS DRY GRAVEL PRAIRIES TIPPECANOE CO., INDIANA (3.114670)
Date: February 1976Creator: Bowles, Marlin L.
Type: Document
Description:This paper is the result of a study to establish an ecological monitoring program that would provide a basis for detecting long-term changes in the population status of endangered and threatened plant taxa, and changes in associated communities. at Lookout Point and Wabash Breaks dry gravel prairies in Tippecanoe County, IN
Extent: 31 pages
1979/03/22: John Laut to George Ware (3.37830)
Date: March 22 1979Creator: Laut, John G.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from John Laut of Colorado State Forest Service to George Ware concerning an updated DED bibliography and requesting assistance in keeping the files complete and up-to-date.
Extent: 1 sheet
1974/07/17: Jim Dolittle [?] to George Ware (3.37834)
Date: July 17 1974Creator: Doolittle, Jim
Type: Document
Description:Note to Dr. Ware from Jim Dolittle [?] thanking him for research material. In addition to sending a copy of his report, he also enclosed two articles [report and articles not included with note].
Extent: 1 sheet
1979/01/22: William Rust to George Ware (3.37855)
Date: January 22 1979Creator: Rust, William
Type: Document
Description:Letter from William Rust of Sheaffer & Roland, Inc. to George Ware concerning a paper and findings of a 1978 study on Sterling Pond.
Extent: 1 sheet
1976/01/01: Mary Lou Marzuki to George Ware (3.39929)
Date: January 1 1976Creator: Marzuki, Mary Lou
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mary Lou Marzuki to George Ware seeking his comments on the proposed Thorn Creek Woods Nature Preserve and thanking him for representing The Morton Arboretum as a project proponent. Enclosed with the letter is a proposed management plan for the not-yet-created Thorn Creek Woods of Park Forest, Illinois.
Extent: 9 sheets, 1 envelope, 1 address label
1976/04/12: Robbin Moran to George Ware (3.40004)
Date: April 12 1976Creator: Moran, Robbin
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Robbin Moran to George Ware asking him to review a draft of his paper on the presettlement vegetation of Lake County. A draft copy of the paper is enclosed along with the original envelope.
Extent: 31 sheets, 1 envelope
1972/02/14: S. Bialobok to Walter E. Eickhorst (3.56321)
Date: February 14 1972Creator: Bialobok, S.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from S. Bialobok of Polska Akademia Nauk, Poland to Walter E. Eickhorst, Curator of Cultivated Collections at The Morton Arboretum offering background information on Tilia x zamoyskiana.
Extent: 1 sheet
1978/11/27: Marion T. Hall to Jack T. Knuepfer (3.57370)
Date: November 27 1978Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Document
Description:A set of two documents.
The first document is a letter from Marion T. Hall to Jack T. Knuepfer outlining the negative impact of ineffective sewage and stormwater management on the Morton Arboretum's land and waterways.
The second document is a flyer promoting a one day conference sponsored by the George Williams College's Institute for Environmental Awareness.
Extent: 4 sheets
1973/07/31: McBride, Baker, Wienke, & Schlosser to Mrs. Marjorie M. Connelly, Village Clerk of Lisle (3.67078)
Date: July 31 1973Creator: Peterkin Jr., Daniel, McBride, Lloyd M.
Type: Document
Description:A packet of two documents. The first is a memo from McBride, Baker, Wienke, & Schlosser to Mrs. Marjorie M. Connelly, Village Clerk of Lisle concerning a pre-annexation agreement with the Morton Arboretum.
The second document is a pre-annexation Agreement between Morton Arboretum, Northern Illinois Gas Company and the Village of Lisle.
Extent: 12 sheets
Street Tree Collection -- Fall, 1976 (3.82248)
Date: 1976Type: Document
Description:A collection of data sheets with height and trunk diameters for the Street Tree Collection at the Morton Arboretum taken Fall, 1976.
Extent: 11 sheets
Sterling Pond Phytoplankton and Metabolism: The Effects of Stormwater Flushing (3.83043)
Date: May 1978Creator: Rust, William
Type: Document
Description:Research paper that discusses the effect of stormwater flushing on phytoplankton and metabolism of Sterling Pond located within the Sterling Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 12 sheets
Vegetational Mapping and Analysis of North Slope Forest Communities Within the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. (3.83113)
Date: July 18 1974Creator: Doolittle, Jim, Rhoads, Dana
Type: Document
Description:Research paper that maps and describes flora on the North slope of The Morton Arboretum for the purpose of determining whether discrete sub-communities with definite compositions and definable boundaries exist.
Extent: 27 sheets