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The Arnold Arboretum News The no Arboretum F , L L - N E " S - 1 ~ . , Arboretum/National Park Service Partnership Receives Two Major Grants Phyllis Andersen, Landscape Historian The Arboretum’s partnership with the regional office of the National Park Service, known as the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, is strengthened this year by the receipt of two grants for historic landscape preservation of national importance. We have just received a grant of $40,000 from the National Center for Pres- ervation Technology and Traimng to produce a technical publication on the preservation of woody plants in historic landscapes. The - .- .-- -------- pubhcation will evolve out of a se- Kristin Claeys, landscape preservation field assistant, Jack Alexander, ries of working group sessions in- chief plant propagator, and Gary Koller, senior horticulturist, comparing volving professionals actively lilac cultivars from the Vanderbilt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, engaged in the landscape manage- New York, to plants in the Arboretum’s collection. ment of historic sites. It will ad- dress historic tree maintenance, to develop and disseminate skills and replacement strategies for the management of features such and technologies for both architec- woody plants of historic impor- as woodlands, hedges, and vistas, tural and landscape preservation tance. The Forum will be geared the inventory and documentation and conservation. to individuals responsible for the of woody plants and the use of The Olmsted Center has also ongoing management of historic computer technology for both received a grant of $12,500 from sites with some space available for mapping and inventory control. the Preservation Assistance Divi- the general public. We are particularly proud that sion of the National Park Service Our partnership with the this grant, one of only two to hold a Forum on Historic Veg- Olmsted Center continues to place awarded to landscape projects, is etation Management at the Arnold us in the forefront of landscape among the first group given by Arboretum in the spring of 1995. preservation work. We are umque the newly created National Center This one-day event will bring to- as an arboretum in our commit- for Preservation Technology and gether speakers from all over the ment. By bringing our traditional Training, which is located at country to participate in panel strengths in plant identification, Northwestern State University of discussions on a variety of topics propagation, and woody plant Louisiana in Natchitoches. The including arboncultural practices management to bear on the newly Center, estabhshed in 1992 by an at historic sites, the management emerging methods of landscape Act of Congress, is part of the Na- of plant succession, and the iden- preservation we are adding solid tional Park Service. Its mission is tification, condition assessment, botanical and horticultural skills to those of landscape architects, preservation, training, and tech- in strategic planning to enable it preservation professionals, and nology development. The future to continue to play a leadership general maintenance specialists. of our partnership looks promis- role in cultural and natural land- Our projects are diverse. Peter Del ing, and we are currently engaged scape preservation. Tredici has identified plants lost to Fairsted, the home and office of National Preservation Frederick Law Olmsted, from his- Conference Honors toric photographs of that site. Arboretum Staff Peter’s work has contributed a Bob Cook, director of the Arnold Arboretum, was given a new to the layer of authenticity Heritage Hero award by Roger Kennedy, director of the National treatment plan currently being Park Service, on the occasion of the 48th National Preservation at Fairsted. implemented Jack Conference sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preserva- Alexander has grafted old apple tion held in Boston, October 26-30, 1994. Heritage Hero awards varieties from Weir Farm, the are given to individuals who have made major contributions to home of American impressiomst the preservation mission of the National Park Service. Boston painter Alden Weir, now a prop- Mayor Thomas Menino was also honored with this award at a erty of the National Park Service, ceremony at the Park Plaza Hotel on October 27. and from the Franklin Delano The renovation of Harvard Yard, including the Yard land- Roosevelt site in Hyde Park, New scape, buildings, and encircling fence received the National York, to provide replacement Preservation Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic for histonc orchards. The plants Preservation. Peter Del Tredici, assistant director for living collec- Olmsted Center, now located at tions, was a member of the committee that prepared the replant- the Frederick Law Olmsted Na- ing plan, which will add over 250 trees to the Yard over the next tional Historic Site in Brookline, 7 to 10 years. The replanting plan is a unique contnbution to the has been nationally recognized as field of landscape preservation in its detailed and sensitive the only within the Na- facility approach to dealing with the loss of the key landscape element, tional Park Service devoted exclu- the American elm. sively to historic landscape x ~~ ’ ~ f ’~l~ °~ :a FIRM The Arnold Arboretum interns of 1994 are, from left to right in the front row, Kirsten Thornton, Todd Forrest, Amy Spencer, Debra Castellano, Kirsten Ganshaw, and in the back row, Vincent DiFusco, Andy Bell, Amy Capron, Scott Wunderle, Lisa Farino, Chris Fannin, Merrill Whittington, Kyle Orr, and Pam Snow. Irina Kadis is missing from the photo. Their training included hands-on experience in grounds maintenance-including an extra dose of hard work on Peters Hill and Bussey Hill-labelling and mapping of trees and shrubs, plant propagation, and library curation. They also participated in plant identification and landscape maintenance classes and joined Arboretum staff members for tours and talks. 2 The Rain Forest learning, decision-making, and Because each student "expert" has Connection technology. umque information, the team can Based on our ongoing search succeed only by sharing their Robert E. Cook, Director for plants containing anti-cancer knowledge and ideas. As the and anti-AIDS compounds in teams make decisions, the direc- Last month the Arboretum Indonesian tropical forests, The tion of the narrative changes, re- entered into an unusual collabora- Ram Forest Connection will com- flectmg the consequences of their tion with a company called Tom bine real-life narratives with col- choices and presenting new oppor- Snyder Productions. Supported by laborative problem-solving based tunities for problem-solving and a $90,000 grant from the Na- on actual scientific research on the decision-making. tional Science Foundation, we will discovery and management of bio- John Burley, director of our be working with them to develop logical resources. The CD-ROM programs in Indonesia, and The Rain Forest Connection, an will include video, animation, still Andrew MacDonald, our research interactive CD-ROM-based cur- images, data sets, maps, remote associate who has just returned riculum package for middle-grade sensing images, sound and music from six months m the forests of students. CD-ROM is a technol- to provide story, information, Borneo, will be working with me ogy that places vast volumes of in- background, incentives, and feed- and a production team at Tom formation on a compact disc that back. Classroom students will Snyder to develop the narrative can be rapidly accessed at any work in small cooperative teams and ensure scientific accuracy. It point. Tom Snyder Productions made up of different scientific promises to be a very creative has extensive experience in creat- "experts." Each team will collect, collaboration and will bring the ing award-winning educational organize, and analyze data from work of the Arboretum to thou- materials that effectively integrate the CD-ROM, print booklets, and sands of schoolchildren across the science content with cooperative related hands-on activities. country. Preliminary Report of the 1994 NACPEC Germplasm-Collecting Trip to Wu Dang Mountain, Hubei Province, China: September 4 to October 11,1994 Peter Del Tredici, Assistant Director for Living Collections Hubei Province figures prominently in the history of the Arnold Arboretum. It has been the source of many of our most prized introductions. E. H. Wilson collected many plants in the vicinity of Yichang (on the Yangtze River) in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and in 1980 Chennongjia Mountain in the western part of the province was the pnncipal site of the Sino- Amencan Botanical Expedition, the first major plant- collecting expedition to China since 1949. This fall, representatives from four of the institu- tions in the North American-China Plant Exploration Consortium (NACPEC), working in cooperation with the Nanjing Botanical Garden, joined in a collecting to Wu Mountain in northern Hubei expedition Dang Mr. Zen of the Science and Technology Committee, Province. I was on the Paul accompanied trip by Meyer Dang Jiang Kou City in Hubei Province, holds a of the Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia, Kevin Conrad fruiting specimen of Emmenopterys henryi collected from the U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, D.C., on the 1994 NACPEC Expedition. 3 R. William Thomas from road takes visitors up to about interesting plants whose seeds we Longwood Gardens, Kennett 3,000 feet, where a handful of collected were Acer gruzum, Square, Pennsylvania, and two hotels are located. Beyond this Castanea henryi, Emmenopterys botanists from the Jiangsu Insti- point a steep stone path leads to henryz, Hamamelz.r mollzr, and tute of Botany, Mao Cailiang and the summit, which is crowned Sinowzlronza henryr. Hao Riming. As well as being with the spectacular Golden In all, we made 127 collections botamcally interesting, Wu Dang Temple. Chinese tourists and pil- of seed that are now being pro- Shan is famous throughout China grims visit the mountain at all cessed for germination at the Dana as one of the principal centers times of year, but their impact is Greenhouses.
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