Civic
and State Government Offices
 Society of Municipal Arborists
Founded in 1964, the SMA is an organization of
municipal arborists and urban foresters. Our membership also includes
consultants, commercial firms and citizens who actively practice or support
some facet of municipal forestry.
Alabama
City of Mobile - In 1997,
Urban Forestry joined the Urban Development Department, further illustrating
the City’s commitment to efficiency and effectiveness.
City
of Florence - Urban Forestry Department oversees the City’s
landscaping needs, tree planting programs, and renewal of the older urban
trees.
City of
Montgomery - Urban Forestry Division is charged with growing and
maintaining healthy trees throughout the City of Montgomery for the public
good.
Alaska
City of Anchorage Parks &
Recreation - Over 10,000 acres of municipal parkland, 223 parks, 250 miles
of trails and greenbelts that link neighborhoods with surrounding natural open
spaces and wildlife habitat, ....
City of Wasilla -
Parks & Recreation Department maintains 5 parks, 49 facilities and parking
lots, 5 ball fields, and approximately 10 miles of trails.
Arizona
City of Phoenix Urban Forestry - To
enhance Phoenix's urban forest environment by promoting tree planting and
increasing awareness of proper tree care through public and community efforts.
Arkansas
City of Little Rock - Welcome to
the website for the Urban Forestry Division of Little Rock Parks and
Recreation. This site was created to keep you informed of Urban Forestry
related programs and issues here in your community.
California
City of Los
Angeles Urban Forest Program - to raise the level of understanding of our
natural ecosystems within the Los Angeles Basin and to elevate a regard and
appreciation for our urban forest.
City of
Sacramento: Parks and Recreation Department - Staff provides care and
maintenance support to more than 150,000 city street and park trees that
comprise our urban forest. They plant the right tree in the right spot; trim
and prune as needed to maintain health and resident safety; and remove
unhealthy, dangerous or fallen trees. Staff is trained to control insects and
disease, and inspect and protect heritage trees.
City of San Diego
Urban Forestry Section - oversees the planting and maintenance of trees and
other vegetation along streets, sidewalks, and other City rights-of-way. The
program works closely with nonprofit organizations to increase the number of
trees in the City and help improve the quality of life.
City of San
Francisco: Bureau of Urban Forestry - The Department of Public Works is
committed to a policy of maintaining and expanding a diverse population of
street trees as an essential component of the urban forest.
Colorado
City
of Boulder: Urban Forestry section of the Parks and Recreation Department -
is a specialized branch of tree management for trees located on city property
within the city limits of Boulder. Removal of dead or diseased trees Providing
development design review and enforcing tree protection codes There are
approximately 30,000 street trees and 10,000 park trees under our jurisdiction.
Florida
City of Fort
Lauderdale's Parks and Recreation Department, Urban Forestry - Trees are an
important asset to the City of Fort Lauderdale and its citizens. For years,
Fort Lauderdale has been planting trees with the help of its citizens.
City of
Gainsville - Urban Forest Management oversees the team that plants, prunes,
and maintains trees along Gainesville's streets, in parks, municipal buildings,
and City-maintained retention ponds.
Georgia
City
of Atlanta: Office of Parks - To improve, preserve, protect and maintain
the City’s parks and public green spaces as a safe and enjoyable
enhancement to the quality of life for all residents and visitors to the City
of Atlanta.
City of
Huntsville - A division of the Recreation & Landscape Management
Department
Hawaii
City and County of Honolulu:
Division of Urban Forestry - consists of an Administrative function, the
Horticulture Services Branch and the Honolulu Botanical Gardens. It propagates,
plants, trims, waters, and maintains shade trees, concrete planters and other
ornamental plants cultivated along public roadways, and in City parks and
malls.
Idaho
City of Boise:
Community Forestry Unit - find out about Tree Care Information, Tree
Selection Guide, ReLeaf Boise, Licensed Tree Services, Tree Steward Classes,
Arbor Day, Tree Ordinance.
City of Lewiston: Urban
Forestry - It is our objective to share what we have learned while
developing our program and to pass along the ideas that so many others have
shared with us.
Illinois
City of Chicago: Bureau of Forestry - The Bureau of Forestry trims
Chicago's 500,000 parkway trees on a six-year cycle. It also coordinates the
planting of 5,000 new parkways trees each year, removes 7,000 dead or damaged
trees annually, grinds the wood from dead trees and branches into chips that
are sold or used on playgrounds and vacant lots, co-administers the City of
Chicago's Landscape Ordinance.
Indiana
City
of Fort Wayne: Parks and Recreation - Our mission is to enhance the quality
of life in Fort Wayne by providing positive opportunities for leisure time and
by being stewards of our parklands, facilities, public trees, and other
resources entrusted to our care.
City of Aurora:
Department of Parks & Recreation - contacts for reaching the County
Forest Preserves.
Iowa
City of Des
Moines: Public Works (Forestry) - Objective: To maintain a healthy urban
forest by providing expert maintenance for the City’s street trees and
other trees located throughout the City-owned system of cemeteries, golf
courses, and parks.
Kansas
City
of Wichita: Forestry - is responsible for maintaining the aesthetic
appearance of highly visible plantings and greenways in public places and
carrying out a comprehensive tree planting, maintenance, and removal program.
Kentucky
Kentucky Division of
Forestry: Urban Forestry Assistance Program - provides urban forestry
technical assistance to municipalities, nonprofit organizations, educational
institutions and private landowners. The main focus of the urban forestry
program is to help communities develop long-term, self-sustaining urban
forestry programs.
Lexington-Fayette Urban County
Government - The Urban Forestry Program is located in the Division of
Streets, Roads and Forestry.
Louisiana
coming soon
Maine
City of Augusta - Bureau of
Parks, Cemeteries and Trees is responsible for the maintenance and operation of
17 cemeteries covering 63 acres; 15 neighborhood parks, public grounds, city
trees, green spaces, and flower beds comprising approximately 100 acres; and
grounds and athletic fields at 8 school sites. The City Tree Warden is
responsible for the protection and care of public trees.
City of Portland -
The Forestry Section of the Parks & Recreation Department has been managing
Portland’s shade and ornamental trees since the
mid-1800’s.
Maryland
City of Annapolis -
Parks and Recreation Department
City
of Baltimore - TreeBaltimore is a part of the Mayor’s Greener
Baltimore initiative that seeks to double Baltimore’s tree canopy from 20
percent to 40 percent within 30 years. With this initiative, Baltimore joins
the ranks of cities across the country that are aggressively working toward
building a sustainable urban forest.
Massachusetts
City of Boston: Urban
Forestry - The urban forest plays an important role in Boston's landscape.
The urban forest consists not only of all the treed areas in Boston (streets,
yards, urban wilds, cemeteries, and parks) but also shrubs, grasses, herbaceous
ground cover, soil, and our waterways.
City of Worcester - The mission
of the Department of Public Works and Parks is to maintain the City's water,
sewer and street and traffic systems for the protection of the public’s
safety and to maintain all city parks, playgrounds, beaches, and street trees,
as well as maintaining the cemetery and public buildings so as to improve the
quality of life for all the citizens of Worcester.
Michigan
City of
Lansing - Parks and Forestry Division
City of Detroit:
Recreation Department - The mission of the Recreation Department is to
provide efficient and cost-effective world class urban forests, parks,
recreation and leisure facilities, and services that enhance the physical,
emotional and social environment of the Detroit community.
Minnesota
City
of Minneapolis: Urban Forest - The urban forest is a major capital asset in
any city. In Minneapolis, more than 979,000 trees provide incredible beauty and
shade while covering more than 26% of our urban landscape.
City of St. Paul: Parks and
Receation - The Forestry Unit of Parks and Recreation is responsible for
over 124,000 trees throughout the city. As part of this responsibility,
Forestry must deal with planting, maintenance and removal, trimming, wood
recycling, and education.
Mississippi
coming soon
Missouri
City of
Jefferson - Department of Parks & Recreation
City
of Springfield: Public Grounds - City Tree Care and Landscaping consists of
the care of 15,000 public trees, 25 acres of landscaped street medians and
parkways, and 65 acres of city facilities and other properties throughout the
City.
City
of St. Louis: Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry - The Forestry
Division is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all St. Louisans by
enhancing and maintaining the surrounding environment through a variety of
services and programs offered through its four sections:
Montana
City of Helena - Tree
Maintenance
Nebraska
City of Lincoln:
Parks Division - of Parks and Recreation Department is the section that
provides maintenance, and upkeep of 99 miles of trails, 114 parks, gardens,
plazas, malls, islands and/or conservancies (covering nearly 5100 acres), 11
outdoor pools, 8 recreation centers, two dog run parks, and over 127,800 city
trees in Lincoln.
Nevada
City of Reno: Urban
Forestry - Our urban forest encompasses trees and vegetation on both public
and private property within the city limits. A dedicated staff of arborists and
a professional Urban Forester maintain over 22,000 publicly owned trees in city
parks and along public streets. Their work is vital to both public safety and
tree preservation.
New
Hampshire
coming soon
New Jersey
City
of New Jersey: Division of Parks and Forestry - Parks and Forestry is
responsible for the maintenance and care of all Jersey City parks, playgrounds
and property. Responsible also includes maintenance of all city trees
throughout the city of Jersey City, tree trimming, root shaving of tree, stump
grinning, tree removals and the planting of trees.
New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection - Division of Parks and Forestry
Community Forestry Program ensures more livable communities through the care
and management of trees.
New Mexico
City of
Albuquerque - All of Albuquerque is an urban forest. In fact, the trees in
your yard are part of the urban forest that keeps our city clean and cool. Over
the years, the people in Albuquerque have invested millions of dollars in the
municipal forest. Citizens are now receiving a return on that
investment.
New York
City
of New York: Forestry Services - provides access to the following forestry
services: street tree, planting, sidewalk repair, wood debris/damaged trees,
tree work permit, stump removal, tree pruning, illegal tree work, dead tree
removall
City of
New York: Trees & Greenstreets - PlaNYC includes a number of
groundbreaking greening initiatives, including planting street trees in all
possible locations, creating 800 new greenstreets, and reforesting 2,000 acres
of parkland.
North
Carolina
City of
Durham - The Urban Forestry division provides arboriculture service and
consultation to the residents of Durham on issues relating to the trees on City
property and rights-of-way. This division is dedicated to the pruning,
planting, removal and protection of trees using the latest arboriculture
techniques and safety standards.
City
of Raleigh - Urban forestry is the management, including planting of trees
and other plants for their contribution to the physiological, sociological,
aesthetic, environmental and economic well-being of urban society.
North Dakota
City
of Bismark - The forestry department is either directly or indirectly
responsible for the care and maintenance of trees growing on land owned by the
City of Bismarck
Ohio
Ohio
Division of Forestry - Ohio’s Urban Forestry Program was created in
1979 within the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to promote trees and other
vegetation as tools to enhance the quality of life within our cities and
villages. Our purpose is to provide community officials and allied agencies
with the organizational and technical ability to effectively manage the trees
along streets, within parks, and on public grounds. Through a statewide network
of regional urban foresters, we help communities manage their urban forest
resources to meet their local needs.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City:
NeighborWoods Program - Maintaining the balance between accommodating urban
development and preserving the urban forest is a challenge.
Oregon
City of
Salem: Urban Forestry Program - There are 130,000+ street trees in Salem
located in the right-of-way or parking or curb strips. These trees are the
responsibility of the City of Salem Department of Community Services, Parks
Operations Division.
Pennsylvania
City of
Harrisburg: Department of Parks & Recreation - The Bureau of Parks
Maintenance is directly responsible for the trimming of more than 50,000 shade
trees located between the sidewalk and the curb of city streets. The City
through a permit process does tree trimming for free. Tree removal is not
performed by the City, but a permit needs to be obtained before removing a tree
between the sidewalk and the curb.
Rhode Isalnd
coming soon
South
Carolina
City of Columbia: Forestry
& Beautification Department - is responsible for maintaining a healthy
tree canopy and for installing and maintaining gateways and landscape projects
on public property. The Forestry & Beautification Department works with
citizens to help them comply with regulations regarding trees and landscaping
on the right-of-way.
South Dakota
South
Dakota Department of Agriculture: Resource Conservation and Forestry - We
provide Urban & Community Forestry (U&CF) assistance for establishing
tree boards, development of tree ordinances, organization of street tree
inventories, organization of tree planting projects and advice in the proper
care of trees. We help identify and control insect or disease problems.
Tennessee
coming soon
Texas
Texas
Forest Service Urban Forestry - The urban forestry section of the Texas
Forest Service website. The mission of the Texas Forest Service Urban Forestry
Program is to help build self-sustaining urban forestry and tree care programs
in Texas communities.
Utah Salt Lake
City: Urban Forestry - The Forestry program will contribute to the
economic, aesthetic, social and environmental well being of the city and its
customers by providing public trees safe, cost effective, and professional
care.
Vermont
coming soon
Virginia
City
of Richmond: Public Works - Urban Forestry Division maintains the more than
150,000 City-owned trees of more than 100 species that provide shade, greenery,
and character to our neighborhoods, streets, and parks.
City of Virginia
Beach - Forestry in the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia
Washington
City of
Olympia - has a long tradition of urban forestry. Named a "Tree City USA"
for 14 years, in 2007 the City of Olympia's Urban Forestry Program received the
Association of Washington Cities' Certificate of Excellence for its "Healthy
Urban Forests for Everyone!" outreach program.
City of Seattle: Office of
Sustainability and Environment - Seattle's urban trees add value to our
community in many ways; they beautify our surroundings, absorb stormwater and
climate-disrupting gases, clean the air, reduce erosion and increase property
values.
West
Virginia
coming soon
Wisconsin
City of Madison:
Parks Forestry - provides tree planting, trimming and maintenance for over
100,000 trees along Madison's 700 miles of city streets. In addition, the
Forestry section is responsible for hundreds of thousands of trees that are
located in the City's parks, golf courses, cemetery and greenways.
City of Milwaukee: Department of
Public Works - Forestry Services is responsible for the design, planning,
planting and management of trees, boulevards, landscapes, greenspaces and
beautification projects within the City of Milwaukee. The primary goal of
Forestry Services is to efficiently manage the urban landscape to provide
better quality of life for our citizens and visitors. This effort seeks to
maximize the environmental and psychological benefits of the urban forest,
while enhancing both landscape and property values.
Wyoming
Cheyenne - The Urban Forestry
Operation is a Division of the City of Cheyenne Parks & Recreation
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