8 CityTREES
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 sub-
jects 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.
Dr. Zhu Hua Ning is the Department
Chair and PhD Program Leader of
the Urban Forestry and Natural
Resources Department at South-
ern University. She served on the
ISA Board and is an Associate
Editor of Arboriculture & Urban
Forestry. Dr. Ning is the winner
of the 2017 ISA Alex L. Shigo Award
for Excellence in Arboricultural Education.
Interested in writing for City
Trees? Please send your
one-paragraph story pitch
to Editor Michelle Sutton.
Jean Zimmerman is a Commercial
Arborist for SavATree and a grad-
uate of the 2020 Municipal
Forestry Institute. She is also a
published author (jeanzimmer-
man.com), a New York-based
writer who has made the histo-
ry of Manhattan a central focus
of both her fiction and nonfiction.
Thank you to John Kilcullen for loan-
ing us his spectacular Prunus
'Okame' photo for this issue's
cover. A pictorial of John's
called, "Downtown Doors:
Trees and Homes of Stat-
en Island Then (~1940) and
Now," will appear in the May/
June 2021 issue of City Trees.
Biocultural Stewardship Essay Authors:
Dr. Lindsay Campbell, USDA Forest
Service Research Social Scientist
Dr. Heather McMillen, Urban & Community Forester,
Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources
Dr. Erika Svendsen, USDA Forest
Service Research Social Scientist
Phillip Rodbell, USDA Forest Service National
Program Lead – Urban Sustainability
