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When I joined AMERICAN FORESTS 25 years ago in its brand-new urban forestry program, we were planning what would become the second national urban forestry conference (the first, organized by the U.S. Forest Service for researchers, took place in 1978). In 1982 the science, art, and practice of urban forestry was relatively new, and the idea that people would consider city trees as necessities--vs. niceties--was pretty much unheard of.
At that conference in Cincinnati, sessions centered around the need for professional urban foresters, for cities and towns to hire these professionals to manage their forests, and the critical need for citizen groups,... |
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