The City of Bainbridge Island recently enlisted us and another arborist, Katy Bigelow, to help revise their local ordinances with respect to trees and forests. Critical areas like wetlands, steep slopes, shorelines all have fairly strict ordinances in place to limit impacts and development, while generally still allowing for...
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City of Bainbridge IslandSkills:
Evaluation & Analysis & Land StewardshipYear
2019
Peninsula Environmental Group recently worked on a large Street Tree Inventory project for the City of White Salmon. We gathered data from roughly 130 trees and also captured a picture of each tree and risk assessment of each tree. The Gaddis Park Forest Management Plan involved 9 plots of...
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Gaddis Park ForestSkills:
Tree Inventory, Forest ManagementYear
2019
This multi-faceted project involved three main parts: Street Tree Inventory, Greenspaces Inventory, and Canopy Assessment. Street Tree Inventory: We gathered tree metrics on many of Tumwater’s street trees (~3500 trees), including location, species, height, DBH, condition, maintenance needs, etc. This involved developing a work flow that allowed for field...
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City of TumwaterSkills:
Arborist Services, Evaluation and Analysis, Sustainable LandscapingYear
2019
Location: Bainbridge Island, WA Experts: John Bornsworth We landscaped and irrigated the second Coppertop development on Bainbridge Island. This landscape included some 10,000 plants and nearly a mile of irrigation. Native and regional plants were used to mitigate for critical area impacts. Our consulting arborist worked with landscape architects and...
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American PropertiesSkills:
Mitigation & restoration design and installation, large-scale landscaping, commercial planting and irrigationYear
2018
The Peninsula Environmental Group team conducted a forest assessment and evaluation, then wrote a substantial timber management plan to meet the requirements of Washington States Designated Forest Land program. This program offers tax incentives for landowners to retain and steward their forestland or manage it for timber. ...
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Private LandownerSkills:
Forest stewardship, Forest evaluation, permittingYear
2018
Peninsula Environmental Group is honored to manage and prune one of the last, largest remaining stands of Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) trees in Sequim, Washington. The oak woodland stand has been privately owned for over 80 years. We prune the Garry oaks every 2-5 years depending on annual rainfall, drought...
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Residential CommunitySkills:
Tree Pruning, Tree Conservation, Community Consulting,Year
2018
Bo Baggins Tree evaluation and analysis by professional arborists. The Bo Baggins daycare, Sitkum Tree Service and the City of Port Angeles contacted us about a potentially high-risk tree in uptown Port Angeles. A large tree branch had recently fallen onto the Cherry Street and taken out the power until...
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Bo Baggins DaycareSkills:
Tree EvaluationYear
2018
PEG provides Tree Conservation & Protection Plans for different engineering firms, landscape architects, builders and developers across the Puget Sound. This TPP/TPPP project was unique in its scale and proximity to a wildlife protection area, specifically American bald habitat. We assisted site planning by identifying the bald eagle nesting zone,...
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Terra Haven Tiny Home DevelopmentSkills:
Tree Conservation, Protection Plans, Wildlife Protection, Native Vegetation, Corridor Buffering, Rain Garden,Year
2018
Peninsula Environmental Group is an on-call community forester and arborist for Iron Springs Owners Association, a coastal community nestled between enormous ancient spruce trees and native coastal shrubs. The association receives arborist reports from a number of local independent arborists. When multiple arborist reports contested or disagreed with each other...
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Iron Springs Owners AssociationSkills:
Forest Management, Arborist, Tree Evaluation,Year
2018
Our Certified Arborists conducted a tree inventory and developed a Tree Conservation Plan and supplemental Tree Protection Plan for a unique forested, cottage development within the City of Port Townsend. A ½ acre forested property was planned for development of 6-7 single-family tiny homes, or cottages as identified in Port...
