In October 2016, the City of Canton, Ohio, was
awarded a Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR)
Grant from the U.S. Forest Service, administered
by the State of Ohio. The grant was titled LSR:
Integrating Tree Planting within a Framework
of Regulatory Compliance and Economic
Development in Ohio's Largest Watershed of the
Ohio River Basin and its purpose was to fund stra-
tegic planting of trees throughout the City. The
grant funds totaled $196,058 with a local match
requirement of $230,000. (An additional $10,000
was awarded to the City in January, 2019.)
Specific criteria of the grant included:
• Planting trees along specified waterways
• Targeting low – to moderate-in-
come areas of the City
• Increasing tree canopy cover throughout the City
• Planting along major road and trail corridors
• Utilizing i-Tree tools >>
Canton, Ohio Uses
i-Tree Tools to Fulfill
USFS Landscape Scale
Restoration Grant
By Kristine Griffith, Civil
Engineering Technician, City of
Canton Engineering Department
City Trees Editorial Review Committee member
Steve Cothrel saw Kristine Griffith's presen-
tation at the 20th Annual City Foresters'
Symposium in Columbus, Ohio. He was
impressed with various aspects of the pre-
sentation and project it highlighted. In this
case, the Canton City Engineer's Office worked
with the City Arborist, but Engineering led
the effort because they had the project
management experience and technolog-
ical resources (eg, with GIS) to do so.
Cothrel says, "I consider this a notable success
story because they secured a USFS grant to
do the inventory and planting; they used free
i-Tree tools to gather the data needed to justify
the creation of an urban forestry program from
scratch; and Kristine used excellent graphics
in her presentation." We asked Kristine to
write about the project for City Trees.
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