Urban Forest News

Stuttgart named Tree City USA
Stuttgart Daily Leader
Stuttgart was named a 2012 Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation in honor of its commitment to effective urban forest management. This is the sixth year Stuttgart has earned the national designation. The community also received a Tree City USA ...

Surrey Now
Events guide
Surrey Now
Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest 25th-anniversary celebration on Saturday, June 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. at forest entrance off 24th Ave., near 142nd Street. Ceremony at 2: 15 p.m. with cake-cutting, face painting, forest walks, guided tours, music by Dixie ...

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Bothell to host Urban Forestry Restoration Project
Bothell/Kenmore Reporter
It is an opportunity to enhance the capacity of urban forests within Bothell. Urban forest restoration helps to manage stormwater and increase air and water quality by improving the health and functionality of trees and forested sites in urban settings ...

How harvesting monsoons helps keep Tucson cool, beautiful
KVOA Tucson News
"The healthy urban forest canopy cover for arid cities like Tucson is said to be 25%-30%," Syracuse says. She says the basins will help Tucson reach that level and beautify the city at the same time. "It will help walkers, it will help bikers, it will ...

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Boone leaders make board appointments
Cincinnati.com
Jennifer Gulick was reappointed to the Boone County Urban Forest Commission. • James Butler was reappointed to the the Walton Fire Protection District Board. • Mark Hadley was reappointed to the Union Fire Protection Board. • State Reps. Sal Santoro ...

Know Your Madisonian: Marla Eddy
77Square.com
A: The biggest challenges are invasive insects and diseases that threaten our urban forest. The biggest threat right now is the emerald ash borer. Q: When will the emerald ash borer arrive? A: That's very hard to predict. We will not begin treatment ...

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Beauvoir tree project includes education outreach
WLOX
"A lot about what's on the coast now is managing the trees in a way that it's going to decrease storm damage when the next storm comes," said Donna Yowell, with the Mississippi Urban Forest Council. "We're going to get what we can reach, just to give ...

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Not Easy Being Green: UT Dallas' Efforts Honored
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
“They may come back in 20 years to our established urban forest and tell their kids, 'I planted that!'” TXU Energy provides trees to neighborhood associations, schools, nonprofit organizations and municipalities “to improve the quality of life today ...

Forest Hills Tree Giveaway Beautifies, Protects
Western Queens Gazette
The value of a city's urban forest will only increase as rainstorms become more severe and levels of particulate matter increase in our atmosphere.” Once again, MacDonald Park was selected as the event site to initiate memories relating to its value to ...

Steve Randall and Larry Ely: Big Education: Parties, politics and property
Amherst Bulletin
The urban forest will suffer as will locals and spotted salamanders subjected to traffic and parties. Macpherson describes how (in the modern economy) it seems illogical that property ownership could encompass both the right to exclude others from some ...

How to protect your home from high winds
Washington Post
If you are not sure about a tree or limb, he says, call a certified arborist to get an inspection. Casey Trees also offers free classes on protecting the urban forest and evaluating tree risk. Visit its Web site at caseytrees.org/events for a class ...

International Dawn Chorus Day: A real tweet treat for early birds
Coventry Telegraph
“But the surprise is that the best dawn chorus is the one in urban areas where you've got a mature urban forest with each garden making a glade which is absolutely perfect for most songbirds. “In this case the wildlife on the doorstep is far better ...

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Volunteers plant birch trees in Britland Park
Fall River Herald News
The importance and focus on urban trees was front and center in the Fall River State of the Urban Forest Report that was completed in February by the Urban Ecology Institute of Cambridge. The project, which took more than two years to plan and ...

Town replants in Perkins Passage
InsideHalton.com
“The town is dedicated to reaching a 40 per cent urban forest canopy by 2057, and this grant is helping us achieve that goal,” said Oakville Mayor Rob Burton. The town's $25,000 grant from the CN EcoConnexions program was used, in part, for replanting ...

Barrie calls all tree-huggers to meeting May 30
Simcoe.com
And they can get their thoughts growing at a May 30 open house on the development of an urban forest strategy. "We're going to provide details on what our existing forest inventory is and potential issues we'll be facing over the next 20 years," said ...

Trees under multiple threats
Worcester Telegram
Our research findings highlight that we need to see and study the urban forest in a comprehensive manner, with action and concern at all levels — from the individual to the neighborhood to our local, regional, and national policy-makers — to mitigate ...

Sonoma locals reject beach parking fees, Big Basin plan short shrifts murrelets
Bay Nature (blog)
[Marin Independent Journal]; Group envisions urban forest as buffer between Port of Oakland and nearest residential neighborhood. [Oakland Local]; Occupy the Farm returns to Albany's Gill Tract. [Oakland Tribune]; First case of swine flu found in ...

KUOW News and Information
Mayor McGinn Appoints Rival's Partner to City Advisory Committee
KUOW News and Information
The Arboretum and Botanical Garden Committee provides direction and oversight for the Washington Park Arboretum, a 230-acre urban forest that's managed jointly by the city, the University of Washington and the Washington Park Arboretum Foundation.

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Students learn about importance of trees during Arbor Week
InsideHalton.com
Students learn about importance of trees during Arbor Week. Back row from left, Mike Halferty, Urban Forest Technician (UFT), Ward 3 Councillor Dave Gittings, UFT Harry Althorpe, and Lucas LaCaprara with James Hill school students, from left, Amy ...

More Than 200 Attend West Hartford Public Works Open House
Patch.com
When you think of our parks system, urban forest, roads, public utilities, building, refuse, recycling and damaging storms ... "Because of Public Works" is an excellent theme to express the importance of a highly trained, skilled, and dedicated workforce.

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