The Barton Arboretum at Medford Leas

The purpose of this website is to be a central place for arboretum record keeping and for geographic information about the Lumberton and Medford campuses. This includes projects and planning information, documentation and educational material. The Medford campus features landscaped grounds, courtyard gardens, wildflower meadows, recreational areas, trails and natural woodlands that constitute the Barton Arboretum. In addition to the 168-acre Medford campus, the 88-acre Lumberton campus is an extension of the arboretum with a meadow, trees, and trails of its own .

The primary focus of this record keeping are the arboretum trees on both campuses, however since the system we have developed works for handling other geographically located items we are also using it for other items in the arboretum.

This web page includes documentation on record keeping, including how to maintain the database and to make and use maps, as well as information on the features of the Lumberton Campus and Medford Campus .

Arboretum record keeping is currently (2021) primarily a resident volunteer function using free software that is usable on Windows, Mac and Linux computers as well as mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. This material is primarily cloud based using Google Workspace products on the Medford Leas (medfordleas.net) domain. The account used is arboretum@medfordleas.net. Data is stored on the Google Drive associated with that account. Thus all data is stored and available in the “cloud” and is not restricted to one computer or user, although local backups are also kept.