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 at the April 19 City Commission meeting on the process of putting together an urban forestry management program. Northrop was the principal author of Tampa’s urban forestry plan, and city staff brought him in as a precursor to considering a similar endeavor locally.