To inform the drafting of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest Master
Plan, seventeen hundred residents participated in a survey
about their perceptions of urban trees and the urban forest.
years. The Plan was created and designed to be inclusive of and useful to as many stakeholders as possible.
Many of the recommendations are already in progress
in one form or another by many of the stakeholders.
For example, Tree Pittsburgh already has a volunteer
citizen program, Arbor Day programming, advocacy, and
tree care and maintenance programs. After the UFMP
was completed, Tree Pittsburgh created a three-year
strategic plan for its programs to better align with the
recommendations of the Plan.
Broad stakeholder involvement is critical to the implementation success of all facets of the Plan. Urban for-
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est working groups of stakeholders have been created
around each of the five keystones described in the
UFMP: Connect, Engage, Manage, Plan, and Protect.
To monitor progress of the Plan's recommendations, an
annual report will be released. It will include metrics
for the past year as well as articles on projects led by
stakeholders and volunteers. We hope to reach a broad
audience with the report; several thousand copies will
be printed and distributed via mailing lists, libraries, City
Council offices, etc. Recommendations of the plan that
are not currently active will be featured as priority work
for the coming year.
City Trees
