By Urling Searle
The Tree Conservancy sits down with Dr. Kramer who came to Greenwich in 2019 bringing with him a wealth of horticultural knowledge and experience.
How does your background influence your work and how do you divide your time and responsibilities? To my work I bring my prior experience and education but also my passion. As a horticulturalist I am intrigued by the nature of all plants, as an environmentalist by the nature of native plants and the environment, as a humanist I am intrigued with how humans interact with nature. In my early career I worked in five different Olmstead gardens and came to realize an intuitive sharing of his vision of coexistence with nature as opposed to conquering it. As tree warden I use my ecological background in making planting decisions on town properties and rights of way that have lasting ecosystem impact. By state statute I hold tree hearings with public input and decisions that must be rendered. One part of my job is more formal and legal and the other more naturalistic and environmental.
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