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The Citizen Forester
program presents a wonderful opportunity for individuals to
become skilled at planting, pruning, and maintaining trees. It
also provides interested persons with the chance to get involved
locally with Cross Timbers cities and counties to help communities take care of
their public trees. Among many other
projects, Citizen Foresters will be capable of assisting with
city tree inventories, training and pruning of newly established
trees, measuring street trees for clearance, pruning crepe
myrtles on public property, mulching trees in public parks, and
participating in city or county tree planting programs and tree
give-away events.

In Fall 2005, the Cross Timbers Urban Forestry Council (CTUFC)
received a matching partnership grant from the Texas Forest
Service to develop the Citizen Forester program. As members of
the CTUFC, City of Fort Worth Forestry staff took lead
responsibility for implementing the program. Other Cross Timbers
members served as guest speakers and assisted as field training
supervisors. The first training program began in January and was
completed in June 2006. Twenty-seven of the 29 participants
completed the intensive 6-month training portion of the program
and now go on to support their local communities by agreeing to
provide a minimum of 25 hours of volunteer service in support of
tree projects on public property. Congratulations to these
dedicated individuals!
For more information
about becoming a Citizen Forester or learning how these
volunteers can assist with projects involving trees on public
property in your community, please contact
Melanie Migura at
817-871-5739.
Download the Citizen Forester
brochure.
Download the Citizen Forester
flier.
Download the Citizen Forester
application.
Download the Citizen Forester
press release.
Download the Citizen Forester
class schedule.
Citizen Foresters in
Action - See what projects Citizen Foresters have
been working on.
Citizen Foresters learning and then
conducting tree inventory at a city park. |