Last Updated: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:10 AM CDT
City to pursue urban forestry program
By Giles Morris
Daily News Staff
Rhinelander is getting ready to count its trees. The city council voted on Tuesday to adopt a resolution to authorize a grant application for the establishment of an urban forestry program. The aim of the grant, according to City Administrator Bill Bell, is to pursue DNR money that will allow the city to employ volunteers to undertake a tree inventory on Rhinelander’s public land and to create a public awareness campaign about the urban forestry program.
The urban forestry program will also allow the city to partner with public schools and the UW-Extension in the Tree City USA program.
The Tree City USA program, sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters, provides direction, technical assistance, public attention, and national recognition for urban and community forestry programs in thousands of towns and cities that more than 120 million Americans call home.
According to Bell, if the grant money comes through, the city will undertake the massive project of inventorying each and every tree growing on public land within the city of Rhinelander. Bell said the first step in the process is to form a Tree Advisory Committee, and he called on gardeners and tree-lovers to contact him at his office to learn more about the program. Dan Kuzlik, outreach coordinator for the UW-Extension, is also ready to answer questions.
In a city built on the wealth furnished by the massive white pine and hemlock stands that fed the logging boom, the move to create an urban forestry program is an appropriate way to preserve and protect the trees that are still today such a prominent feature of the local landscape.
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