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Lynn

Lynn Planting Goal Progress:

tree icon 1,950 Trees Planted out of 2,400 GOAL

Last Updated: December 14, 2021

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Meet Your Local Foresters:

Dave Bresnahan

Education: B.S. Natural Resources Management focus on Forestry, Umass Amherst 2005.
Experience: Dave is an ISA certified arborist and has been with the GGCP since 2014, for 11 planting seasons, and was the planting program’s first Forestry Assistant!  He has supervised parks and trails maintenance crews, and urban tree planting crews for 10+ years in cities & county parks, and Gateway Cities and has worked on coastal restoration projects.
Interests: Travel, Live music and tree-tography.
Favorite Tree & Reason​: Japanese Pagodatree (Styphnolobium japoinicum) for their majestic form and wide spreading canopy.​

Mike Griffin

Education: Bachelor’s in Natural Resource Conservation with a concentration in Forest Management, UMASS 2014
Experience: Started working with DCR in Amherst assisting various management and service forestry projects, then worked one season as a Laborer on the Chelsea tree planting crew. Worked for two years as the Forestry Assistant at the Asian Longhorned Beetle Reforestation program. In 2017, became a Forester for the GGCP in Lynn and have been here since, totaling 11 planting seasons.
Interests: Backcountry snowboarding, mountain biking, rock climbing, and anything else to take me up mountains and get me out into the wilderness.
Favorite Tree: Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) It is a long lived tree that will leave an impact when open grown. It is also rather urban tolerant and can leave a lasting impression for years after it is planted.

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