Laura Finn is a teacher at Fulston
Manor School, Sittingbourne,
Kent. Laura completed her
BSc in Geography in 2017,
studying at Canterbury Christ
Church University (CCCU).
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In This Issue: Contributors
Visit urban-forestry.com to learn about all things SMA, including
the Municipal Forestry Institute, SMA Municipal Accreditation, our
Arborist Exchange program, Annual Conference, and more. You
can also find a compendium of several dozen written Roundtables
on subjects ranging far and wide, including Urban Forestry in
Zoos, Managing Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, Bees and
Urban Forests, Working with Slopes, and Large Tree Relocation.
Peter Vujakovic is Professor of Geog-
raphy at CCCU. He is a bio-
geographer with a particu-
lar interest in heritage and vet-
eran trees and is Chair of
the University's Biodiversity &
Heritage Working Group.
Interested in writing for City
Trees? Please send your
one-paragraph story pitch
to Editor Michelle Sutton.
Contributors of text and/or photos to the
"Retired from the Municipality" Roundtable:
• Brett O'Brien
• Chris Boza
• Gene Hyde
• Gordon Mann
• Ian "Mac" Mcdermott
• Jenny Gulick
• Joe Benassini
• Len Phillips
• Mike Galvin
• Paula Chope
• Ralph Mize
• Shelley Vescio
Michelle Sutton has been City
Trees Editor since 2005. She is
also Editor for the New York
State Urban Forestry Coun-
cil. Michelle has a mas-
ter's degree in Urban Horticul-
ture from Cornell University.
Jean Zimmerman is a Commer-
cial and Consulting Arbor-
ist for SavATree and a grad-
uate of the 2020 Munici-
pal Forestry Institute. She is
also a published author (jean-
zimmerman.com), a New York-
based writer who has made
the history of Manhattan a cen-
tral focus of both her fiction and nonfiction.
