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O'Fallon presents Urban Forestry Management Plan; staff recommends arborist position and phased implementation
Summary
Parks staff presented an Urban Forestry Management Plan that inventories the city's trees, maps canopy and heat hotspots, and sets goals to increase canopy and species diversity.
Parks staff presented the Urban Forestry Management Plan to the Parks & Environment Committee, describing the city-wide tree inventory, canopy and heat maps, species-diversity analysis, and an implementation framework to shift from reactive maintenance to proactive stewardship.
"We took an inventory of all of the trees in town... all 5,173 of them within town... you can drill down each one of these trees," the presenter said, showing a map on the city's website that lists species and…
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