Canopy ICT

07/16/2022

Do you love trees? Because we sure do! 🥰 Green space is an asset for our community. Unfortunately our current city manager does not see it the same way.

‼️Park and green space is being sold off around the city to be developed. Right now, land along McLean west of Seneca is slated to be sold and developed into apartments. We will lose 40 trees, many of which are mature.

Please sign this petition and let city council know you value green space as an asset and you do NOT believe park land should be sold off and developed.

Save our Delano District Green Space & Trees

07/03/2022

06/07/2022

The Sierra Club -- Southwind Group (Wichita)--is sponsoring a 'Tree Walk' with an arborist on Saturday, June 11 beginning at 9AM in Clapp Park. We will start from the Club House off Harry. Roger Spexarth, of Happy Tree, a licensed Arborist will lead the 'walk' and identify the different tree species and explain how they may be identified.

L.W. Clapp is Wichita's newest neighborhood park (until September 2021 it was a golf course) and is home to several stands of beautiful mature trees. It is located at the intersection of Harry and Oliver in south east Wichita. The 'Walk' will begin at the park club house (entrance is off Harry) at 9AM and is not expected to last more than two hours.

Roger will point out different tree species and help us learn to identify the trees that are all around us. Hope to see you there tree friends!!

https://www.sierraclub.org/kansas/blog/2022/06/southwind-event-walk-woods-and-picnic

05/25/2022

$0 budgeted for trees/reforestation

Difficult to understand the priorities of the City of Wichita- Government here. Words like “there is no money for trees since the Great Recession” don’t really matchup for a request for $3.3 Million for Pickle Plex (lighted pickle ball courts), not to mention the $25 Million on Crystal Lake, among others. As the Mayor pointed out that pickle ball is actually getting more than the supplemental allocation for the critical buidings needs of the Fire Department.

This is disappointing but not suprising. We will be asking City Council to revisit the issue in final budget approval process.

Help us plant trees regardless.

05/25/2022

City of Wichita Proposed budget walkthrough today. Meeting starts at 10am.

CanopyICT will finally get to hear the first signal of how seriously City Management takes the tree canopy loss issue, since no budget numbers from the city have been seriously discussed to date.

05/21/2022

05/18/2022

🌳Proper way to mulch around your trees, very important to keep them healthy!🌳❤️

05/16/2022

CanopyICT has reached out myltiple times, in multiple ways, to Wichita Festivals about the

They are not easy to reach or to even tag in a post. If anyone has a connection please feel free to help us. If not the window of opportunity to do a volunteer event is rapidly closing.

In general siloed communication amongst city departments and cultural institutions is extremely challenging. Every promoter we know and work with struggles to get the word out on their individual events.

Good thing we are building an organization to support independent promoters and to help communities in need this year with or without support.

05/15/2022

Calling all !

Please reguster your email via our new website “volunteer”button. Even if you have manually signed a sheet at one of our events.

As obe of our founders says below - a quick website visit helps us today!

Our tree planting plan for this fall willbe announced soon with volunteer opportunities and community action events planned. Make sure you are on the email list to get the info you need to be a !

The health of our tree canopy is an everyone issue. Let’s unite around the revitalization of Wichita’s tree canopy and overall ecosystem. OUR TREE CANOPY IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE By every measure, abundant healthy trees make a city better. Enhances livability Provides shade Cleans the a....

05/14/2022

know this to be true!

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