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Article: TREE WARDEN GETS HIS DAY IN THE SUNWARDEN'S DOMAIN COVERS $61M IN TREES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 28, 2005
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If a tree falls in Arlington, Jim Dodge hears about it.
As the town's tree warden, Dodge and his staff will mark the Arbor
Day holiday tomorrow by distributing 300 kousa dogwood, redbud, and
Rose of Sharon seedlings to fifth-graders. The rest of the year, he
keeps tabs on nearly 26,000 trees in Arlington pruning and taking
down dangerous or unhealthy trees and planting replacements.
"No two trees are the same," said Dodge, who graduated from the
Franklin Institute in Boston with an associate's degree in automotive
technology. "Say you're going to do a brake job on a car. Most brake
jobs are pretty basic. You do this, you do that. Doing trees isn't
like that, it's a challenge. . . .
"You ...