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Urban Forestry reports net tree gains, ramps pruning and planting amid staffing and funding constraints
Summary
Bureau of Urban Forestry reported on April 24 that it is pruning thousands of street trees and projecting a net positive in planted trees this year, while noting contractor onboarding delays, stump‑grinding backlog and uncertainty about sustained planting funding.
Nicholas Crawford, assistant superintendent for Urban Forestry, presented the bureau’s performance report at the Sanitation and Streets Commission meeting on April 24, 2025. He said the bureau’s Street Tree SF maintenance program has pruned about 77 percent of street trees since the program’s start and is projecting to prune roughly 7,409 trees this fiscal year.
Crawford said the bureau’s total street tree inventory is about 125,000 assets and highlighted reductions in annual removals compared with prior years. He reported removal counts peaked near 1,466 in fiscal 2023 (about 1 percent of…
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