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Bothell starts urban forest management plan; consultant sought, canopy inventory planned
Summary
At the October 2024 meeting of the Bothell Parks and Recreation Board, long‑range planner Cameron Colvin outlined a yearlong urban forest management plan funded primarily by a Department of Commerce grant and supplemented with ARPA funds.
At the October 2024 meeting of the Bothell Parks and Recreation Board, long‑range planner Cameron Colvin outlined a yearlong urban forest management plan funded primarily by a Department of Commerce grant and supplemented with American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds.
Colvin said the work will include a review of existing plans and regulations, updated tree‑canopy mapping using aerial and lidar data, and a street‑tree inventory limited initially to the public right‑of‑way. “We will be cleaning up that 2016 data so that we can have a better apples‑to‑apples comparison,” Colvin said, describing a 2016 baseline map the city plans to update.
The nut graph: City staff said the plan aims to give officials data and tactics to protect large trees, prioritize planting and…
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