City considers creating urban forestry program | Sarasota
1 month ago Share As part of a continuing emphasis on tree preservation, officials heard a presentation on a strategy for more formally documenting and managing the city’s canopy. Robert Northrop thinks the task of developing a comprehensive strategy for maintaining and growing a robust urban tree canopy will be relatively straightforward for Sarasota officials — as long as the community sees it as a priority. Northrop, a forestry faculty member with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension in Hillsborough County, gave a presentation ...
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