The City of Cedar Key Tree Fund is designed to replace trees that have died on city property. Indigenous to Cedar Key, and one of the heartiest species, is the live oak. The Tree Fund’s intent, of course, is to maintain the city’s cooling, shady, green canopy.

Three live oak trees, all of them eight- to ten-feet tall, were planted in Cedar Key last week. One oak is just twenty feet south of Second Street, between the City Park Pavilion and a picnic shelter. The other two new live oaks are in the center of Cemetery Point Park and placed where the two taller oak trees were.

With Vice-Mayor Sue Colson supervising, Public Works Superintendent James Custer and Brian Hancock assisting, Wes Langston of Langston Tree Service of Trenton, Florida, had the three oaks planted in a matter of a few hours.

Enjoy!

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