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Regional Tree and Shade SummitPresentations & a Discussion on Cultivating Green Infrastructure
March 9, 2011
Planning for Growth of the Urban Forest –The Municipal & Community Partnership
Libby Davison, Consulting ArboristIrene Ogata, Urban Landscape Manager
City of Tucson
The Never Ending Task(s)
• So we have a Plan – Now What?• What tools/resources are available?• How to activate the
Implementation Machine?
Resources: Understanding Limitations
Never underestimate the power of small groups and communities.
Don’t let the largeness of the task inhibit taking the first steps
Resources: Understanding Limitations
Obstacles
Finite Resources
Markers
OPPORTUNITY COSTS – REMEMBER THEM?
Resources: But, Despite the Limitations…
Balance
Momentum
Resiliency
Efficiency
Resources: Funding
Businesses Organizations
Government
Resources: Water and Land
Resources: People and Time
Resources: People and Time
Paradise: Tucson Urban Heat Island
Counting CrowsJoni Mitchell remix : Big Yellow Taxi
• They paved paradise and put up a parking lot• With a pink hotel and a boutique and a swinging hot spot
• Don’t it always seem to go that• You don’t know what you’ve got till its gone• They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Counting CrowsJoni Mitchell remix : Big Yellow Taxi
• They took all the trees and put them in a Tree Museum• And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them
• Don’t it always seem to go that• You don’t know what you’ve got till its gone• They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Tucson Urban Forest
Tucson Urban Forest
