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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I’m working on a Tree Risk Management Program for the City of Nanaimo. We have an Urban Forest Management Strategy and have written a new Management and Protection of Trees Bylaw which was passed by Council a year ago last December. Next step is the Tree Risk Management Program.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have reviewed some Tree Risk Management formats, but am wondering what mapping programs people are finding best suited for inventory purposes and secondly what kind of Policy statements are out there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Alan Kemp<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Urban Forestry Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Certified Arborist, Certified Tree Risk Assessor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Community Development<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>City of Nanaimo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>250 755 4460 (local 4357)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>alan.kemp@nanaimo.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>www.nanaimo.ca/goto/urbantrees<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>