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Lake Forest Park officials weigh $70,000 SFI grant to update city's urban forest plan
Summary
Tree Board chair Mark Phillips told the Sept. 11 City Council work session that the Sustainable Forestry Initiative has offered a $70,000 grant to assess Lake Forest Park's urban forest and provide information useful to updating the city's 2011 community forest management plan. Council members asked about timeline, staff time and contingencies; no
Mark Phillips, chair of the Lake Forest Park Tree Board, told the City Council at a Sept. 11 work session that the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has offered the city a $70,000 grant to evaluate the city's urban and community forestry practices and produce analysis that could inform an updated community forest management plan.
Phillips said SFI's review would apply the nonprofit's 16 urban-forest sustainability standards, include a roughly $5,000 certification pre-audit and produce data the city could use if it later pursues formal certification. "They really want to give us this $70,000," Phillips said, adding the work would take about one year if accepted.
The Tree Board is asking the city to pursue the grant because the city's current community forest management plan dates to 2011 and the board believes new canopy analyses and other data collected since then make an update timely. The draft SFI program would not pay for development of a full management plan, Phillips said, but would supply core…
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