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.