Context: Campus Aerial Photo 2002

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Campus As Arboretum A Smart Sustainable Para
digm for planning, interpreting and experiencing
landscape and place

UM Golf Course
Campus
City of College Park
Context Campus Aerial Photo - 2002
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University of Maryland Arboretum and Botanical
Garden

• Debut, Maryland Day 2008
• Member, American Public Garden Association
  (APGA)
  
• Meets criteria established for a public
  arboretum
  
• Documented and managed collection including
  trees
  
• Open to the public on a regular basis
• Active or passive interpretation of the
  collection
  
• Labeling
• Brochures
• Tours and other educational outreach
• Research activities and publication - TRU
  analysis
  

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Campus Arboretum Context

• Maximize the exposure of a currently managed
  resource, our collection of 6805 inventoried
  trees and associated landscapes and gardens
  
• Enhance Campus landscape typologies through
  appropriate development of the unique character
  of individual outdoor spaces within the larger
  framework
• Encourage direct customer interaction with the
  landscape as a whole
  

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Arboretum Mission

• Be an instrument of horticultural
• distinction, landscape design,
• interpretation, and place-making reflecting
  the universitys education, research, and service
  missions
  
• Incorporate, reflect, and illuminate diverse
  heritage landscapes established from 1856 to
  present
  
• Demonstrate exemplary practices of environmental
  stewardship, horticulture and urban forestry
  thereby enhancing the campus aesthetic and
  promoting awareness of conservation and
  preservation of our natural environment for the
  enrichment of the campus community and visitors

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Campus Places
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Campus Tree Inventory Evolution

• Initial inventory data collection focused on
  trees with diameter greater than 6 inches for
  forest canopy documentation and delineation for
  forest conservation purposes
• Hazardous elements were analyzed and recorded for
  risk management
  
• Current transition to management of the total
  plant collection as a comprehensive educational
  asset will involve capture of accurate data on
  trees of all sizes as they are planted as well
  as all shrubs, vines, herbaceous perennials

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• Over 6,500 trees have been individually mapped
  and evaluated on the UM campus grounds
  
• Data collected in the inventory is used
• to produce maps of tree health and risk
  assessments
  
• to highlight specific populations or areas of
  interest
  
• to guide decisions regarding maintaining,
  planning, and developing campus tree plantings
  
• Using GIS and other database software, individual
  trees can be easily tracked for developing
  effective maintenance strategies for future green
  spaces and each trees individual contributions
  to the urban ecosystem can be assessed.

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Display labels installed on 62 tree specimens
near McKeldin Mall (52 taxa)
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Non-native

• MetalPhoto display labels include
• Common name
• Scientific name
• Genus and specific epithet, cultivar or botanical
  variety if known
  
• Family name
• Arboretum identification
• Designation as a Maryland native for species
  indigenous to the state as appropriate.

• Display Label

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Collection Highlights

• Largest diameter sawtooth oak, Quercus
  accutissima, 56.6 diameter, S Memorial Chapel
  
• Largest crown spread American elm, Ulmus
  americana, 117.7 spread, South Gate
  
• Tallest willow oak, Quercus phellos, 96.6 tall,
  south of Holzapfel Hall on McKeldin Mall
  
• Oaks (Quercus spp.) represent largest related
  group at 19.5 percent of the total collection

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Campus as Arboretum and Botanical Garden
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2005
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Smart Sustainable Growth
Integrated Campus Planning a model for a su
stainable world
Resources Campus Master Plan www.facilities.
umd.edu/MasterPlan2/envguide.htm
Environmental Stewardship www.sustainability.
umd.edu Aesthetic Guidelines for Campus Develop
ment www.facilities.umd.edu/MMD/Aesthetic/index.
cfm Campus Arboretum Botanical Gardens www.
arboretum.umd.edu
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