tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84844658138915136892024-02-05T05:28:23.283-05:00Tree Town Turf GuyCity of Ann Arbor Michigan Golf Course SuperintendentScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-88079308300980536242018-08-01T06:18:00.005-04:002018-08-01T06:18:56.761-04:00July 2018 Weather SummaryAfter a very wet May, 2018 decided to go the other way for July. We recorded only 1.11 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during July. That is the lowest summer monthly total since 2012. Only seven days saw measurable rain and just one had over a tenth of an inch. The month was bookended with rain, as the first saw 0.06 inches and the 31st had 0.81. The storm on the 31st carried over into the next month, and the total was 1.14 inches. That brings the total for 2018 to 17.08 inches.<br />
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July had an average temperature of 73.5 degrees. The high temperature for the month was 95.1 (July 4th.) There were seven days with temps that got above 90 degrees. That makes 13 days already where the high was above 90. The lowest recorded temperature was 50.1 (7th)<br />
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We recorded 2.19 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during June. Eleven days saw measurable rain and seven had over a tenth of an inch. The highest rainfall on any day was just 0.53 inches. That brings the total for 2018 to 15.97 inches, which is about a half an inch above what we have recorded over the last 10 years.<br />
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On Friday, May 4th, the weather station at Leslie Park recorded sustained windspeeds of 38 mph. Unfortunately, this created a problem in the orchard between #6 and #8. Two of the original pear trees from Dr Leslie's orchard were blown over. Both were hollow and predated the golf course. The expected lifespan of a pear tree is around 50 years, so this is not a surprise. </div>
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<i>One of the downed trees. You can see the other in the background.</i></div>
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You can read about our efforts to maintain the spirit of the orchard <a href="http://treetownturfguy.blogspot.com/2017/06/dr-leslies-orchard.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Basically, every year we try to replace around 10 of the pear trees. When the golf course was built, there was a 12 tree by 12 tree section that was left. This meant that at least 144 pear trees, plus around 25 cherry trees were a part of the golf course.<br />
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Ten years ago, there were less than 90 of these trees left. Now, through attrition of new trees and the death of the old trees, we have almost filled all of the empty spots.<br />
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<i>A new pear tree next to the old stump.</i></div>
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On May 30th, the windspeeds only reached 28 mph, but that was enough to topple this old oak tree between #11 and #13. </div>
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<i>It was kind of big.</i></div>
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<i>And also hollow.</i></div>
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<i>In this picture from 2103, you can see the lean that the tree had.</i></div>
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Due to the tree's size, we will not be able to do anything with the trunk until the ground is frozen. Until that point, the tree will remain were it fell. Luckily, it is mostly out of the way.</div>
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May had an average temperature of 65.5 degrees, up just over 25 degrees degrees from April. The month started with a bang, as our first high temperature above 80 occurred on the first of May. The high temperature for the month was 94.6 (May 28th, the second day in a row above 90.) There were twelve days above 80 and two above 90. The lowest recorded temperature was 39.6 (May 11th.)<br />
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We got 5.57 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during May. The rain fell on 15 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 3rd (0.80 inches.) Twelve days saw more than a tenth of an inch of rain. The monthly total is not too much more than the average of 4.05 inches. When you dig a little deeper into the numbers, you can see why it seems so much wetter than normal. In 2014 and 2015, we had over 5 inches of rain for the month, but each month had two days of at least an inch and a half of rain. In 2011, the monthly total was 6.77 inches, but 3.3 inches came in one storm. This means that there was a lot of rain, followed by at least a couple of days to dry out. This year, we saw rain on the 2nd through the 4th. Then we had four days of no rain, followed by a seven day stretch of rain every day. Then three days to dry out, followed by 5 days of rain. Three more dry days, rain on one day, two days without precipitation and then we ended the month with rain on the last two days. The longest period without rainfall was four days. That brings the total for 2018 to 13.78 inches, which is about 2.5 inches above what we have recorded over the last 10 years.<br />
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The biggest improvements to come about during the renovation were centered around drainage. Some of the other improvements were smaller in scope, but impacted play-ability no matter how much rain occurred.<br />
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The fairways on #5 and #6 were severely sloped and did not have any flat areas. These two fairways were shaped in such a way as to offer a thoughtful, well struck shot to land on a moderately flat area.<br />
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<i>The view from #6 tee before. The fairway slopes from left to right and has a ridge running across.</i></div>
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<i>They have started to shape the ridge.</i></div>
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<i>Here, the tee has been final graded and the fairway is taking shape.</i></div>
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<i>The view from the tee in 2017. If you look closely, you can see the flag on the green, something that could not happen before the renovation.</i></div>
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<i>On this picture of #7, you can see the new bunker in front of the green as well as the trench where the new irrigation line was laid.</i></div>
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<i>Here is a before picture of where the current green on #8 is located. It is deceiving, because I don't think there was actually a pond here. It was just an area that held water after rains.</i></div>
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<i>The new green taking shape. The area right above the man's head is about where the old green was.</i></div>
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<br />Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-24731183361514731702018-05-01T13:47:00.000-04:002018-06-01T08:09:03.713-04:00April 2018 Weather SummaryAs I write this monthly summary, the sun is out and the temperature is pushing 80. May is starting out quite different from April.<br />
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This April had an average temperature of 41.9 degrees, up almost 8 degrees degrees from March. This might seem like a lot, but for the past seven years, the average April temperature is 48.1. So we are over six degrees behind that mark. The high temperature was 74.1 (April 12th, which would also be the first time we had temperatures above 60, except for TWO days in February when we hit that number.) The lowest recorded temperature was 16.7 (April 12th.) Nineteen days had low temperatures below freezing (compared to 25 days in March) and every day got above 32 degrees for at least a little while.<br />
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We got 2.85 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during April. The rain fell on 12 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 15th (0.84 inches.) Four days saw more than a tenth of an inch of rain. That brings the total for 2018 to 8.21 inches.<br />
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Average windspeed for the month was 3.5 mph. The highest recorded sustained windspeed was 33 mph, on the 4th.<br />
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Here are some photos I took on April 19th, 2010 compared to some that I took today.<br />
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<i>2018. Make sure to look at that freshly painted barn, not at the snow.</i></div>
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If you look at the links on the right side of my blog, you will see the <a href="http://www.gddtracker.net/" target="_blank">Growing Degree Tracker.</a> This is a very helpful tool developed by Michigan State University that models plant maturity. It takes a base temperature and subtracts it from the average temperature for the day, ignoring negative numbers. Thus, the numbers always increase. There are many things that the GDD Tracker help turfgrass managers with. One of these is calculating Crabgrass pre-emergent timing. As you can see from the below graph, now is optimum timing for putting this out on your lawn.</div>
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Last year at this time, we were approaching the end of the window to apply pre-emergant. In 2014, we were visiting by the "Polar Vortex" and we opened Leslie Park on April 11th. We officially opened Leslie on March 30th this year, but it feels like this spring was worse.</div>
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<br />Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-81065398654248900262018-04-03T09:05:00.003-04:002018-04-03T09:06:47.180-04:00More 1995 renovation photos.To read more about the renovation project and <a href="http://treetownturfguy.blogspot.com/2018/03/renovation-1995.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>.<br />
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One of the major reasons to undertake the renovation of Leslie Park Golf Course back in the 1990's was to alleviate some drainage issues the course had.<br />
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<i>This is a picture of #3 fairway before the renovation.</i></div>
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<i>These exposed culverts were in the middle of the fairway. You can also see the ultra-modern cart barn that was immediately behind the green.</i></div>
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<i>The drains start at the pond on #8 and run through the low areas on #6, 5 and 4, before daylighting at a holding pond to the left of #4 fairway. It the flows through a culvert under the railroad, where it goes back underground across #3 and #1 fairway. This is on the left side of #4 fairway.</i></div>
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We got 2.02 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during March. The rain fell on 8 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 1st (0.67 inches.) Five days saw more than a tenth of an inch of rain. That brings the total for 2018 to 5.36 inches.<br />
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Average windspeed for the month was 3.3 mph. The highest recorded sustained windspeed was 28 mph, on the 31st.<br />
<br />Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-27756887130775987782018-03-13T10:53:00.000-04:002018-03-13T10:53:06.489-04:00Renovation (1995)During this winter, I undertook the process of re-configuring my office. It looked exactly the same as it had when I started my tenure with the city more than 9 years ago. Part of this process was cleaning out some old files. When I first began the job, I spent a week looking through the many files that I inherited and deciding which I needed, which I didn't and which I was not sure about. After nearly a decade, I figured that anything in the last category that I had not looked at since 2009, probably was in the "not needed" category.<br />
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A bunch of these file folders were filled with pictures from 1994 and 1995, when Arthur Hills redesigned Leslie Park. This involved enlarging tee boxes, reducing the number of blind shots, enhancing drainage and constructing five greens. These pictures were unlabeled and haphazardly thrown in to the folders. Sometimes the pictures location was not at all obvious.<br />
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Although I had not needed these pictures, they are a valuable part of the history of Leslie Park, so we started sorting the pictures into hole numbers. When this happened, the pictures started telling a story, which we then turned into a picture album. Technology has progressed quite a bit in the last 20 plus years, so I scanned a lot of the pictures into digital copies. I will probably share some of these on this blog over a couple of posts.<br />
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<i>The view from #1 Tee at Leslie Park in 1994</i></div>
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<i>#1 Tee in 2009 (Notice the fairway bunker on the left. The silver maples between #1 and #3 are gone.)</i></div>
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<i>Looking at #1 tee</i></div>
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<i>This is where the current green for #1 is. You can see the old green and a bunker to the right of the picture.</i></div>
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<i>Constructing the green and approach (1995)</i></div>
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<i>#1 green complex in 2012.</i></div>
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<i>Here is the old green complex. #2 tee sits behind the pine trees.</i></div>
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<i>#1 fairway looking back toward the tee. This was taken about 100 yards from the green.</i></div>
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<i>#1 fairway from about 150 yards from the green in 2012.</i></div>
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<i>The construction of the first fairway bunker on #1.</i></div>
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<br />Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-38342796342351455562018-03-01T13:17:00.000-05:002018-03-06T13:18:08.383-05:00February 2018 Weather SummaryFebruary had an average temperature of 31.2 degrees, up a little more than 4 degrees from January. The high temperature was 63.6 (February 20th) and the lowest recorded temperature was 3.1 (Feb 5th.) Twenty-two of the 28 days had low temperatures below freezing,while 10 days never got above 32 degrees.<br />
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We got 2.32 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during February. Some of the precipitation came in the form of snow, which the weather station does not record well.. The rain fell on 9 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 20th (1.08 inches.) From the 19th to the 21st, 1.90 inches of rain fell. That, combined with melting snow led to flooding at both Huron Hills and Leslie Park. That brings the total for 2018 to 3.32 inches.<br />
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Here is some video of Traver Creek after the nearly 2 inches of rain in the middle of the month.<br />
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<br />Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-86566588789381921662018-02-01T13:10:00.000-05:002018-03-06T13:11:12.315-05:00January 2018 Weather SummaryJanuary 2018 had an average temperature of 27.1 degrees,up 1.5 degrees from Decmber. The high temperature was 556.7 (January 11th) and the lowest recorded temperature was minus 4.8, Jan 1st.) Twenty-six of the 31 days had low temperatures below freezing, while 13 days never got above 32 degrees. Two days had lows below zero.<br />
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We got exactly 1 inch of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during January. Some of the precipitation came in the form of snow, which the weather station does not record well.. The rain fell on 9 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 22nd (0.36 inches.)Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-13414974555535894742018-01-12T14:02:00.002-05:002018-01-12T14:02:18.718-05:002017 Weather in ReviewThe highest temperature recorded at Leslie Park Golf Course during 2017 was 91.9 degrees on September 22nd. It was one of six days that got above the 90 degree mark. The lowest temperature was just - 11.7 degrees on December 28th. Four other days had lows below zero, all of them coming in the last week of December. Thirty-seven days never got above the freezing mark in 2017, while 104 days dipped below 32 degrees at some point.<br />
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For the year, the golf course received 36.01 inches of rain, which is almost 7 inches more than 2016. The most rain in a single day was 2.07 inches on July 7th. October took the gold for most rain during the year with 5.58 inches, April took Silver with 4.29 inches, followed closely by July with 4.13 inches. There were 115 days with at least a trace of rain, while seven days had over an inch in a 24 hour period.<br />
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The average wind speed for the year was 2.6 mph. The highest sustained wind speed was 41.0 mph on March 8th.Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-69848254547628023642018-01-12T13:51:00.003-05:002018-01-12T13:51:59.905-05:00December 2017 Weather SummaryDecember 2017 had an average temperature of 26.5 degrees, down another 15 degrees from November. The high temperature was 59.8 (December 5th) and the lowest recorded temperature was minus 11.7, Dec 28.) Twenty-nine of the 31 days had low temperatures below freezing (only the 18th and 19th stayed above 32 degrees) while 15 days never got above 32 degrees. Four days had lows below zero.<br />
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We got just 0.36 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during December. Some of the precipitation came in the form of snow, which the weather station does not record well.. The rain fell on 6 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 16th (0.14 inches.) That brings the total for 2017 to 36.01 inches.Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-33141875093850433512017-12-21T12:19:00.003-05:002017-12-21T12:20:39.868-05:00Winter SolsticeDecember 21st at 11;28 AM (EST), the tilt of the earth's axis reaches the farthest away from the sun (for the northern hemisphere) and the point of least solar radiation for the year. This is called the winter solstice and marks the beginning of winter. It is also the shortest day of the year. Sunrise today comes at 8:01 AM and sunset occurs at 5:06 PM, giving us just 9 hours and 5 minutes of sunlight in Ann Arbor. After this point, the days get longer and the weather, eventually, starts to warm up. From this point, we can start looking forward to spring and a new golf season.<br />
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We got 3.96 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during November. The rain fell on 11 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 18th (1.59 inches.) Eight days recorded more than a tenth of an inch. That brings the total so far to 35.65 inches for 2017.Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-92225834862699530382017-11-01T14:54:00.000-04:002017-11-01T14:54:34.499-04:00Catching upThe fall has been busy at the golf courses for the City of Ann Arbor. I want to apologize for not keeping up with blogging more. I will make up for it by offering up a quick summary of some of the projects we have been doing.<br />
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<b>New Practice Green for Leslie Park</b><br />
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<i>At the beginning of September, we stripped this area of rough behind #1 tee.</i></div>
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<i>Shaped it and seeded it with bentgrass. This will be an additional practice putting green. </i></div>
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<i>Two weeks after seeding, it looked like this. We have now mowed it three times at 0.400 inch. In the spring, we will slowly bring it down to our normal green cutting height of 0.125 inch.</i></div>
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<b>Level and expand tees at Leslie Park</b></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Some of the smaller tees are getting noticeably mounded in the center. This comes from golfers taking shots from the same spots and maintenance filling the divots with sand and seed. After 20 years, the center of the tee may have grown by 6 or 12 inches. </span></div>
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<b>Rock wall on #7 tee at Leslie Park</b></div>
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As part of the leveling of #7 tee at Leslie, we are also trying to expand the usable teeing area on the back of this tee. In order to accomplish this, we are adding a rock wall, which will allow us to build up the back corner of the tee.</div>
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<i>Geo-textile fabric is laid out behind the rocks to keep erosion to a minimum.</i></div>
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New cart paths were added to #13, 14 and 15 at Huron Hills this year. They tie into the path that was put in last year on #12. In order to keep to contours of the holes as close to original as possible and still have a fairly flat path, rock walls were also put in here.</div>
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<b>Fertilizing Oak by #5 at Leslie</b></div>
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<i>This oak on the right side of #5 fairway has been declining in recent years. Last year, we pruned all of the dead wood out of the canopy and de-compacted the soil around the tree.</i></div>
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During aerification, I would always break tines on the front, left corner of #2 green at Leslie. After doing so again this year, I decided to dig up the rock that we kept hitting.</div>
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<i>This little guy will love it's new home in the rock wall on #7 tee.</i></div>
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<b><br /></b>Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-67342891085290256992017-11-01T14:21:00.001-04:002017-11-01T14:21:38.328-04:00October 2017 Weather SummaryOctober 2017 had an average temperature of 55.8 degrees, down just under 10 degrees from September. The high temperature was 84.7 (October 3rd) and the lowest recorded temperature was 30.6, (Oct 26th which was also the only day during the month that the temperature dipped below the freezing point.)<br />
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We got 5.58 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during October. The rain fell on 15 different days, with the largest amount coming on the 11th (1.64 inches.) Nine days recorded more than a tenth of an inch. That brings the total so far to 37.33 inches for 2017.Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-85812329908297324352017-10-06T09:51:00.001-04:002017-10-06T09:51:52.641-04:00September 2017 Weather SummaryDr. Kevin Frank from Michigan State University said that it seemed as if August and September switched places this year. I couldn't agree more. September had five days with high temperatures above 90 degrees. The rest of 2017 had only one, as June 12th got to 90.0 degrees exactly. The highest temperature at Leslie Park was 91.9 (September 22nd,) which was in the middle of a stretch of seven days with high temperatures above 85 degrees and had all five of the 90 degree-plus days. The lowest temperature was 41.5 (10th,) while the average was 64.6 degrees.<br />
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We got 1.34 inches of rain at Leslie Park's weather station during September while Huron received less than one inch. The hurricanes that hit Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico kept high pressure and clear skies above Michigan for most of the month. The rain fell on six different days, with the largest amount coming on the 4th (0.77 inches.) The next highest rainfall was 0.32 inches, just three days later. That meant just a quarter of an inch of rain fell from September 8th through the end of the month. That week of hot temperatures also fell in the last half of the month, so these factors combined to make the grass think it was mid-summer. Only 2 days recorded more than a tenth of an inch. That brings the total so far to 26.11 inches for 2017.<br />
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<i>The fence ended up being nearly 900 feet long.</i></div>
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<br />Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-6902922389390299402017-09-08T12:28:00.001-04:002017-09-08T12:28:17.006-04:00Baby TurtlesYesterday, one of the Natural Area Preservation crew noticed that the turtle eggs they had moved to our turtle nesting mounds <a href="http://treetownturfguy.blogspot.com/2017/07/turtle-eggs-and-sand-piles.html" target="_blank">(Read more HERE)</a> were hatching. Here are some pictures of the little guys.<br />
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<br />Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-90601807111771607832017-08-25T09:03:00.000-04:002017-08-25T09:03:10.236-04:00Barn PaintingWhen I first started at the City of Ann Arbor in 2009, one of the first things I noticed was the beautiful 100-plus-year-old barn. Unfortunately,the exterior had not been painted in the memory of anyone working at the course.<br />
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I set about trying to find someone who would be willing and able to undertake this task. I contacted historic barn preservation groups and farmers. I called painting companies and general contractors. I either got no response or an estimate that was well into five figures. I did find one barn restoration expert. He looked at the barn and had many things he wanted to do, in addition to painting the barn. His cost estimate was not spectacularly high. All looked good for us to finally get the barn painted. When the city contacted him to get his tax information, he started complaining about the government regulations and refused to give any tax information for billing purposes. Another dead end.<br />
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Finally, the barn was in such a state that we could not ignore it anymore and the City Park Operations crew had to paint it. They rented a lift and bought 110 gallons of paint. The results were striking.<br />
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<i>From near #10 green in 2017.</i></div>
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July 2017 had an average temperature of 72.2 degrees, up about 3 degrees from June. The high temperature was 88.8 (July 19th) and the lowest recorded temperature was 50.3 (July 25th.)<br />
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What really gets interesting is when you start to look at the rain we got in July. We got 4.13 inches of rain, which is just above the 3.47 inches we have gotten in the last seven years. Unfortunately, 98% of that came within one seven day period, between July 7 and July 13. You might also remember that this is right before the City Championship at Leslie Park. Then the precipitation stopped. Technically, we got 0.06 inches of rain for the rest of the month, but that came over three different days. Eighteen days with appreciable rainfall. There were only 3 days where the high temperature was below 80 degrees during that time span, and one of those days was 79.2 degrees. The maximum amount of rain on one day was 2.07 inches. (July 7th.) There were seven total days of rain and two of those were over an inch. July 10th saw 1.01 inches fall.<br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Average windspeed was 1.1 mph. The highest recorded sustained windspeed was 33 mph, on the 12th, although these numbers are suspect, because we had an electrical surge at the barn during one of the storms. Along with frying the COM ports on the irrigation computer, it did something to the weather station. Now it only seems to record windspeed and humidity during daylight hours. I tried changing the battery, but that did not work, so must contact support at Davis instruments for some help with this issue.</span>Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772468577891789732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8484465813891513689.post-52044644276840653752017-07-07T09:34:00.002-04:002017-07-07T10:40:17.358-04:00Turtle Eggs and Sand Piles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
When the <a href="http://travercreekproject.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Traver Creek Project</a> was started, one of the most interesting parts was the turtle stipulation. In order to begin the creek renovation, <span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.632px;">a permit was submitted to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ.) </o:p><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.632px;">To satisfy the MDEQ permit of the project, turtles and other herptofauna were relocated from the two inline detention basins (AKA ponds on holes #12 and #17) on Traver Creek to the pond on #8. There are at least four large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_snapping_turtle#Anatomy_and_morphology" target="_blank">snapping turtle</a>s (</span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.92px;">Chelydra serpentina)</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.632px;"> and numerous </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_turtle#Description" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.632px;" target="_blank">painted turtles</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.632px;">(</span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.632px;">Chrysemys picta</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.632px;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.632px;"> in Traver Creek and there was concern over what would happen to these turtles during and after the project was completed. To help them after the project, four sand piles were created for the turtles to use as nesting areas. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.632px;">Last month, a painted turtle nest was discovered at Argo Canoe Livery. The nest was located in a high traffic area and the probability of successful hatching was low, so Natural Area Preservation (NAP) was called in to move the nest to a better location.</span></div>
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<i>Argo and NAP staff locate the eggs.</i></div>
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<i>The eggs after excavation. It is very important to have the eggs remain in the same orientation for proper development.</i></div>
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<i>The eggs were moved to one of the sand piles at Leslie Park and covered with a predator exclusion screen. This makes it difficult for raccoons and other animals to dig up and eat the eggs.</i></div>
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<i>While NAP was working, they discovered a snapping turtle nest in the same pile. The covered that nest with a predator exclusion screen, as well.</i></div>
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<i>NAP also puts signs out so that people know what the screens are for and to leave them where they are.</i></div>
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