The Big Picture
Regional
County
Community
State
Structure
Data
General
Detail
Urban Forester Involvement
Partnership/Planning
Hands on Implementation
Vegetative
Tree Risk

| As we began to look at how an urban forester and emergency manager might collaborate we wanted to show
| exactly where the two might have opportunities to interact in relation to the involvement of an urban forester,
| or like minded professional, in the care of a communities urban forest. An urban forester is likely to be involved
| on the state level and regional in a partnership and utilized more likely in the planning phases of how to manage
| and developing the plan where as the Community level is more likely to be utilized with hands on implementation
| and overseeing the plan. From a more general role to a more detailed role.
| The Vegetative Management Plan and the GIS model (UTRI – Urban Tree Risk Index),discussed in this presentation,
| utilizes the concept of the general overall look at a region… A look at the overall Vegetation vs. the more detailed
| as utilized in a community Tree risk management plan. The involvement of the urban forester or like minded
| professional will be similar… from the general partnership/planning involvement to the more hands on the more
| detailed the plans is … like the tree risk management plan.
| An urban forester is likely to be involved on the state level and regional in a partnership and utilized more likely
| in the planning phases of how to manage and developing the plan where as the Community level is more likely
| to be utilized with hands on implementation and overseeing the plan.