State And Private Forestry

Intermountain and Northern Regions

Urban and Community Forestry 

What Is the Urban and Community Forestry Program?

More communities throughout the West are taking an interest in the trees and vegetation that line their main streets, shade their city parks and provide windbreaks for their school's playgrounds and athletic fields.  The State and Private Forestry's Urban and Community Forestry Program provides tools for the State Foresters and Forest Service employees to support rural resident's interest in their communities' forests. This program:

• Provides a comprehensive urban forestry program to establish, maintain, and/or improve trees and forests within communities, thereby enhancing the quality of life of the people
• Improves public awareness of the importance of trees
• Fosters volunteer participation in community forestry projects and programs
• Provides technical and cost/share assistance to communities for implementing community tree programs
• Assists communities in gaining Tree City-USA status

State Foresters and their staff provide the primary delivery of the program.

Key Partners

Primary

• State Foresters

Secondary

• State Community Forestry Advisory Councils
• State League of Cities organizations
• Nursery associations
• Tribes
• Volunteer organizations
• Community tree boards
• Forest Service volunteers
• Resource Conservation and Development Councils (RC&Ds)

Opportunities for National Forests and Grasslands

• Assist communities in starting and/or operating community tree boards
• Help prepare requests for proposals for cost/share community tree projects
• Become involved with communities to implement community tree projects
• Provide technical assistance to establish and maintain community trees
• Assist communities in attaining Tree City-USA status

Program Coordinator for ID, MT, NV, ND, UT

For further assistance Margie Ewing