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The
Citizen Forester program presents a wonderful
opportunity for individuals to become skilled at
planting, pruning, and maintaining trees in an urban
environment. It also provides interested persons with
the chance to get involved with local city and county
agencies and help their community take care of its
public trees.
Topics include identification of recommended native and
adapted trees, proper hands-on planting and pruning
experience, benefits of trees, tree risk assessment,
conducting tree inventories, common insect and disease pests
of trees, and other relevant urban forestry topics.
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| Reviewing
tree inventory protocol before setting out to inventory
the trees in a city park. |
Taking a
break from tree inventory. |
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Citizen Forester class of
2011 |
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Courtney
Blevins evaluating a tree pruning in progress. |
Gareth
Harrier teaching tree evaluation. |
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| Keith
Martin supervising a difficult tree pruning. |
Melinda
and JoAnn. |
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| Steve
Chaney teaching pruning techniques. |
Citizen Foresters
often host booths at special events, such at the Clean Air Fair
in downtown Fort Worth
in honor of Earth Day. |
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| Taking a
break during the classroom portion of Citizen Forester. |
Visiting
with fellow Citizen Foresters during a classroom session
break. |
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| Matt
Churches, presenter at Citizen Forester class. |
Citizen Foresters are hard at
work in mid-January pruning a median of crape myrtles in Fort
Worth. |
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Under the guidance of Courtney
Blevins, Texas Forest Service, a Citizen Forester prunes a cedar
elm along the I-30/I-35 corridor in Fort Worth. |
A Citizen Forester trainee
measures the DBH of a tree. |
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Citizen Foresters learn tree identification from Courtney
Blevins, Texas Forest Service, during the May training session. |
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Citizen Foresters and Melinda
Adams, City of Fort Worth, measure to determine the proper depth
of the planting hole. In March, Citizen Foresters planted 21
trees in Fort Worth’s Kingswood Park which was previously
treeless. |
Prior to pruning, Citizen
Foresters discuss the proper way to prune this newly established
tree with Steve Chaney, Texas Cooperative Extension. |
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Citizen Foresters attend a
pruning presentation at the Fort Worth Zoo. Each monthly
training session includes a morning of classroom instruction and
an afternoon of hands-on field training. |
Citizen Foresters receive
training to recognize tree hazards from Melinda Adams, City of
Fort Worth. |
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During the May training, Citizen
Foresters work with Renee Burke of City of Plano, to conduct a
tree inventory of Fort Worth’s Bluebonnet Circle Park using PDAs
and the free MCTI software program. |
Citizen Foresters collect and record
data and measure the height of a tree. |
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