[CANUFNET] Citizen Pruner Program

[Brad Gurr]

NYC has a program as well

http://www.treesny.com/programs.html?#citizenpruner

Brad Gurr  " Dedicated to the Care and Preservation of Trees"

--- On Fri, 7/10/09, Croy, Owen <OCCroy at surrey.ca> wrote:

From: Croy, Owen <OCCroy at surrey.ca>
Subject: Re: [CANUFNET] Citizen Pruner Program
To: "Canadian Urban Forest Network" <canufnet at list.web.net>
Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 10:18 PM




 
 






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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