Press Release
Go Native with Trees and Shrubs
Release date: 2/6/2013
Go Native! ... With Trees and Shrubs - Restoring the Ecology of Our Home Landscapes
Monday, February 11,2013
6:00–8:30pm
Southfield Public Library Community Room
26000 Evergreen
in the Civic Center complex - ½ mile south of I¬696
Keynote Speaker: Bill Schneider, Owner,WildType Nursery, Inc
6:00 pm Registration and table displays
6:15 pm Welcome from City of Southfield & SOCWA
6:40 pm Keynote Presentation: Native Trees & Shrubs for Urban Biodiversity: Why and How for the Homeowner ~Bill Schneider, WildType Nursery
7:30 pm Break
- view table displays Rouge Green Corridor maps
- how does your property connect?
- Nature preserves with volunteer projects Native forest communities in Southeast Oakland County; invasives of concern
- Soil health, compost quality, natural mulches - SOCWA volunteers
7:55 pm Selecting, planting and maintaining urban trees with water quality in mind ~ Kim Thompson Everett; Thompson-Everett Gardening
8:20 pm Closing comments from Bill Schneider
8:30 pm Adjourn
Program sponsored by SOCWA, Southeastern Oakland County Water Authority
3910 W. Webster
Royal Oak, MI 48073
248-288-5150
www.socwa.org
Funded in part through a grant to SOCWA from the Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project,
EPA grant no. XP-995743-09.
For fact sheets and videos, www.socwa.org
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