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David Bienemann has been working in Bowling Green (BG), Ohio as the Municipal Arborist since July of 2004. Since hired The Arborist Division efforts have impacts not only on the BG but throughout the Midwest. David has been able to proactively manage an urban forest using a Geographical Information System (GIS) inventory of all trees in BG's public rights-of-way and City-owned green spaces. Crews receive specific work orders to prune and/or remove 850 priority trees from the 8,200 trees within public rights-of-way. The City has planted 1,600 trees the past four years. BG is involved in research projects studying invasive insect pests of trees.

BG's urban forestry program was first exposed to the state of Ohio and the Midwest by its research and study of the Gypsy Moth infestation at City Park. The Gypsy Moth is a non-native insect pest of trees such as maple, elm, and particularly oak family. BG implemented a new innovative program to try to suppress the moth populations from City Park; from this process they were able to take out 95% of the infestation. This strategy on Gypsy moth reduction is now recommended by

the ODNR Division of Forestry, OSU Extension and the Ohio Department of Agriculture as a "new tool in the tool box to suppress Gypsy Moths." (Bienemann, Municipal Arborist, 2009)

BG is also currently involved in a three year research program to determine which genetic DNA certain breeds of non-native ash trees allow them to be resistant to the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). When EAB was introduced to BG, David was able to look ...read more