City Trees is a premier publication focused on urban + community forestry. In each issue, you’ll learn how to best manage the trees in your community and more!
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communities and the City of St. Louis) and a city-wide UTC master planning calculator for the City of Liberty, both contracted through Plan-It Geo. A tree inventory in St. Louis contracted through Davey Resource Group obtained 200% match directly from local politicians. The tree gods have blessed me with eight full-time regional urban foresters to help over 900 communities and all these programs. Chuck Conner and Wendy Sangster (both MFI grads!) manage the Kansas City regional area. Jon Skinner and Cindy Garner manage the SW region that includes Springfield, Branson, and Joplin. Mark Grueber and Perry Eckhardt manage the Saint Louis regional area that includes almost 100 communities. Rocky Hayes works the SE region which has many very small communities and is mostly farmland. Ann Koenig (MFI grad!) works the central region which includes Missouri University in Columbia and the Lake of the Ozarks region; she is also on a special assignment called TREES WORK focused on raising awareness for all forestry activities. Regional urban foresters are active in many ways to promote community trees, as you can see by the following summaries. Kansas City Region/Wendy Sangster. "Our area is dealing with the confirmation of Emerald Ash Borer in summer of 2012. We have offered workshops on treatment options for arborists, readiness planning and cost: benefit analysis for city foresters and administrators, and utilizing the urban wood these pests will generate. Homeowner education is ongoing and never-ending; however, the silver lining to this is we just completed a regional bi-state (with Kansas) i-Tree Eco analysis and now have good estimates on the number of Fraxinus in the region (6.5 million) and the value of the ecosystem services they provide us. This is great, hard data to take to the decision makers who influence urban forestry budgets in our area." Central Region/Ann Koenig. "In central Missouri, the urban forestry program focuses on partnerships. Our largest community is Columbia with a population of 110,000. The next biggest is the state capital, Jefferson City, at 40,000 people. Communities get much smaller from there, although development around the popular resort destination, Lake of the Ozarks, is significant. Urban green space just west of the Saint Louis Arch 24 City Trees