Published Documents

In 1988, T.R.E.E. published "Recommended Landscape Design Guidelines for the I-75 Bypass" in conjunction with the University of Florida Department of Landscape Architecture for the Florida Department of Transportation and the Tampa Parkway Association. This 212-page document is a thorough site analysis of the 53 mile I-75 Bypass corridor in Hillsborough County east of Tampa, from the Pasco County line (where I-75 and I-275 split) to the rejoining at I-275 in Manatee County.

The 1989 Class of Landscape Architecture students composed Design Guidelines and prototypicals for particular problems on the Bypass at the South Crosstown Expressway (now Lee Roy Selmon Expressway) as a studio project.  The 1989 T.R.E.E. Arbor Day on I-75 project was based on a masterplan by student Mitch Hutchcraft.

Co-authors of the document were T.R.E.E. members William Moriaty (Project Manager), his wife Karen Cashon and Greg Howe (President).  Contributors to the document included four Florida Native Plant Society Suncoast Chapter (now the Suncoast Native Plant Society) members: Dr. Richard Wunderlin (then President), Sydney Park Brown, Debbie Butts, and John Beckner; former University of Florida botanist David Hall; and nurseryman Hugh Gramling (currently Executive Director of the Tampa Bay Wholesale Growers Association).

The Bypass traverses five ecological communities around Tampa and St. Petersburg:
    (1) Sand Pine Scrub;
    (2) South Florida Pine Flatwoods;
    (3) Oak Hardwood Hammock;
    (4) Swamp Hardwood Hammock; and
    (5) longleaf Pine/Turkey Oak Hills.
The document included lists of recommended plant species by Florida Native Plant Society Suncoast Chapter (now the Suncoast Native Plant Society) members for each community.  The federally endangered Florida Golden-aster (Chyrsopsis floridana) exists in small quantities at CR 672 (Big Bend Road).

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