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Committee advances urban forest management plan and schedules detailed briefing on storm damage and recovery
Summary
Issaquah’s Service, Safety and Parks Committee on Jan. 28 recommended forwarding the city’s first Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP) to full council as regular business and requested a separate council briefing on the recent windstorm’s damage and financial recovery options.
Dan Hintz, Issaquah’s urban forester, presented the draft Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP) and the committee recommended forwarding the plan to full council as regular business while adding focused council discussion on storm recovery and financial impacts from the recent wind event.
The UFMP is framed as a roughly 10‑year program roadmap covering current conditions, goals and a prioritized implementation and monitoring framework. Hintz described three major plan sections: (1) current conditions and canopy assessment updates, (2) vision and guiding principles, and (3) implementation and monitoring, including cost estimates for priority studies.
Monitoring tools and costs Hintz described two monitoring tools: an urban forest audit using a U.S. Forest Service protocol and a benchmarking exercise based on Tree City USA / peer comparisons. He provided short‑term cost estimates included in the plan: a riparian…
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