[CANUFNET] Citizen Pruner Program

[Croy, Owen]

Andrew Hillman from Ithaca New York started the first Citizen Pruner Program many years ago.  Give Andy a call, and I am certain that he would be pleased to chat with you about his award-winning program.  Following Andy’s success, other communities in New York State and elsewhere have put these types of programs in place.  

 

Follow this link to learn more about Andy’s program.

 

http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B3B881805-DA8B-4AE7-B4EB-0BBDFBBB26E5%7D&DE=%7B0F9787C3-1765-42F5-AB73-2315BF1EC348%7D

 

Owen Croy

City of Surrey

 

From: canufnet-bounces at list.web.net [mailto:canufnet-bounces at list.web.net] On Behalf Of RViehbeck at thunderbay.ca
Sent: July-09-09 8:28 AM
To: canufnet at list.web.net
Subject: [CANUFNET] Citizen Pruner Program

 


The City of Thunder Bay, in conjunction with a volunteer tree advocacy group- Trees Thunder Bay, is beginning to design a Citizen Pruner Program.  This program is designed to train/ educate city resident volunteers on pruning/ tree trimming techniques for tree care maintenance from ground level, on City trees.  We would like to give this program a trial run through in the fall and hopefully continue well into the future.  Our goal is to help improve our urban forest’s health and value and reduce the number of tree trim or hazard tree calls that the City of Thunder Bay receives, as well as give city residents the opportunity to participate in urban forest stewardship.  My question is: Has any other city in Canada attempted this?  Does any Canadian city presently run a similar program?  And if so, can you suggest how exactly you would design such a program?  We are looking at issues such as; liability, union issues, education material, supervision, certification, type of pruning, equipment and advertising. 

Thank you.  We appreciate any comments, suggestion or program material on this subject. 

Rena Viehbeck
Tree Stewardship Program Coordinator 
The City of Thunder Bay
807.625.2956 (tel)
807.625.3258 (fax)
rviehbeck at thunderbay.ca

Parks Division, Victoriaville Civic Centre
111 Syndicate Avenue South
Thunder Bay ON P7E 6S4

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