A portion of our predeveloped site is already naturally wooded with trees and shrubs. We are pursuing option 2. If we are not disturbing these wooded areas, do they automatically count toward native or adaptive vegetation or will we need to document each of the trees and shrubs and their species? If some of them do not qualify as native or adaptive, do we have to remove them?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
April 28, 2010 - 10:27 pm
Nelson, those wooded areas could count as native or adapted, but it will take a little work to document that.For perspective, the LEED Online credit form asks you to "List the native/adapted plants or other ecologically appropriate features that contribute to meeting the requirements of this credit."For certifiation, the LEED Online form also requires "A site plan showing all natural areas contributing to credit achievement and highlighting areas of native/adaptive vegetation orother ecologically appropriate features."
Nelina Loiselle
Above Green239 thumbs up
June 13, 2012 - 5:32 pm
I'm in the same boat. Part of the site will include new landscaping for which we are using all native/adaptive plants. But a large part of our site already has grasses, trees, and shrubs that have always been there. Can we count these as native adaptive? And in order to do so would we have to get a LA to come out and identify the species of each shrub, tree, etc? That would be a TON of work!