Pre-meeting discussion of tree canopy and species
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But they're measuring you know, they said it's hard to measure can cover because of uh how many you know, what time of the year it is what leaves are. So Yeah, and so then they you know say, Well we're gonna measure the the um growth of the tree, you know, the inches of the trees. Okay, that makes sense too. I said, but are you specific about the species of the tree. I said because you know you could have a ten inch palm tree and a ten inch palm tree you don't really give a crap about. So preserve that's
not going to be much in the way of
canopy.
Yeah.
Well
and You know, I think you probably have an average canopy cover per inch of tree ratio for like a pine, but that's gonna be a different ratio for a live oat. Live oat can have a larger canopy or that's why I said, you know, I think we need to kind of be more specific about the species, because there's certain species we don't really care about keeping. And there are certain species that we definitely have to be a little bit more than a lot of things.
It's
all the hardwood trees that we form that we care about keeping.
I don't know what else is native to Florida besides you know, obviously the oaks. So we have there's walnut,
many varieties of oak trees. And then
we have hickory trees, sycamore trees, red maple trees. I didn't think. But I guess we've seen we have Cyprus meeting. Of course.
So
we're gonna we're gonna do all the regular meetings. That's another one that doesn't much
three.
Cypress is protected and ordinance will be less.
People think that cypress trees are not protection. Cypress trees. Wetlands are protected. They usually grow in wetlands. But like if you had a cypress tree going in the middle of your yards That's not infreated anything. So that's what it is.