Oaktoberfest Tree Care Panel @7 PM
It's Oaktoberfest - brought to you by Westport's Tree Board. Find out all the good trees do in our yards and how to return the favor in caring for them. Take home a free sapling, too.
Get expert perspectives on the value and care of trees from our panel: Mary Ellen Lemay, Landowner Engagement Director, Aspetuck Land Trust; Danica Doroski, Urban Forestry Coordinator, DEEP CT; Doug Williams, Arborist, Bartlett Tree Experts; and members of Westport's Tree Board. Bring your tree questions and take home a tree!
Meet the Panelists
Mary Ellen Lemay, Landowner Engagement Director, Aspetuck Land Trust
Danica Doroski is a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of the Environment and the State Urban Forestry Coordinator at Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Her work focuses on restoration and management of planted and naturally regenerating urban forests. In this work, she draws from past experience in forestry, as a masters of forest science student at Yale, public horticulture, from her time at the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia and community engagement from her work with the New York Restoration Project and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Doug Williams, Arborist, Bartlett Tree Experts
Please note: At this time, Oaktoberfest Tree Care Talk is an in-person, indoor event. Masks are required. Please come prepared with a mask to wear. There will not be a mask provided to you.