Creating an Urban Forester Position- a Step in the Right Direction!

The City needs to fully fund and equip an Urban Forestry Program to be successful in the building and maintaining of our Urban Forests.

With a replacement value of of $11.3M as noted on page 18 of the report, the Urban Forester Position needs to carry sufficient authority to be able to actually protect this valuable and irreplaceable resource.

This position should not be buried in an existing department out of convenience.

Our Urban Forester needs to be able to work across departments and would fit nicely into an Environmental Sustainability Department, which I hope the City is working toward. It is far past time for the City to invest in separate Program to include Arborists and Ecologists.