Urban Forestry Planning

Urban Forestry Planning
A Brief Overview of the Process

1
Tree Board or Advocates
OUR Community Forestry assists in the development of tree boards, committees, commissions, or groups, that are collaborators and legacy agents for the future of each partner organization’s urban, rural, and community forestry program
2
Data Collection
Generate and collect high quality LiDAR, GIS mapping, tree inventory data, socioeconomic, heat island mapping, census data, and other data sources, such as health inequity maps.
3
Analysis
The OUR Community Forestry team works with each partner orgainization to professionally analyze the data collected and prepare it for sharing with the community.
4
Community Engagement
We host community listening sessions where we share the data that we have collected, provide insights into how that data can be utilized to form a long range master plan for urban forestry. We listen and recieve feedback on community goals that are included into the plan.
5
Adoption of the Master Plan
OUR Community Forestry drafts an Urban Forestry Master Plan that incorporates the data, the community vision, and the resources of each local community to execute the plan. OUR Community Forestry assists in the presentation of the plan to Boards, City Councils, and other Leadership groups for approval and implementation.
6
Reporting
The Urban Forestry Master Plan outlines a data collection and analisys frequency (typically at 5 year intervals). This reporting is done through LiDAR and I-Tree tools that collect and provide the analysis of the urban forest and track the ecological cost benefits.
OUR Community Forestry works with K-12 Schools to create and implement campus forestry plans.
OUR Community Forestry is grant funded and provides low cost professional guidance to all of our partner schools which will be accreditated as Tree Campus K-12.

OUR Community Forestry works with Municipalities to create and implement Urban Forestry Master Plans.
OUR Community Forestry is grant funded and provides low cost professional guidance to all of our partner municpalities which will be accreditated as Tree City USA.

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A Brief Overview of the Process

Tree Board or Advocates

Data Collection

Generate and collect high quality LiDAR, GIS mapping, tree inventory data, socioeconomic, heat island mapping, census data, and other data sources, such as health inequity maps.

Analysis

Community Engagement

Adoption of the Master Plan

Reporting

OUR Community Forestry works with K-12 Schools to create and implement campus forestry plans.

OUR Community Forestry is grant funded and provides low cost professional guidance to all of our partner schools which will be accreditated as Tree Campus K-12.

OUR Community Forestry works with Municipalities to create and implement Urban Forestry Master Plans.

OUR Community Forestry is grant funded and provides low cost professional guidance to all of our partner municpalities which will be accreditated as Tree City USA.

Get in Touch with Mike Oxendine, Executive Director of OUR Community Forestry!