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Chapter 14 - Developing an Urban Forest Management Plan for Hurricane-Prone Communities1
Francisco Escobedo, Rob Northrop and Wayne Zipperer2Abstract
An effective urban forest management and planning process should be developed and implemented before damage from a windstorm or hurricane occurs. It can also be used as a blue print for post-hurricane response to damage after a storm. This fact sheet brings together the information and tools from previous fact sheets in this hurricane recovery series. It also changes the focus to the community rather than the homeowner or arborist and from individual trees to the urban forest. A management plan needs to be developed for the entire communitys urban forest, which includes all the trees on public and private properties. Communities (e.g. neighborhoods, homeowner associations, towns, or cities) can manage their tree resources to meet common goals and objectives using this process which is outlined by discussing seven general approaches to developing an urban forest management plan for hurricane-prone communities.
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Footnotes
1. This document is FOR-121, one of the Urban Forest Hurricane Recovery Program series of the School of Forest Resources and Conservation and the Environmental Horticulture Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date September 2007. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu and the Urban Forest Hurricane Recovery Program Web site at http://treesandhurricanes.ifas.ufl.edu .2. Francisco Escobedo, Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation and Robert Northrop, Urban and Community Forester, Hillsborough County Extension Office; Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Wayne Zipperer, Research Forester, USDA Forest Service, Gainesville, FL 32611.
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