Ensuring Effective Involvement in Urban Forestry
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Seeds of Change, TreeUtah Newsletter
Publication Date
1-1-1996
First Page
1
Last Page
2
Abstract
Community involvement in urban forestry often is viewed as simply enlisting volunteers to supply labor for planting or restoration projects. Such activity is a narrow interpretation of what community involvement should be. Community involvement must include residents who will be impacted by a project, involve them early and throughout the process, and ensure some citizen control over the process. Educational efforts should be considered as two way; urban natural resource professionals may have as much to learn and as great a need to change perspectives as the community impacted by a project
Recommended Citation
Kuhns, M.R. 1996. Ensuring effective involvement in urban forestry. Seeds of Change, TreeUtah and Utah Community Forest Council Publ. Spring 1996; pp. 1-2.