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Want to be an Urban Landscape Steward? IN THIS ISSUE 2014 SOUL training is right around the corner 2014 SOUL Course

Winter Webinar Series

Tree Stewards Awards

Ash Awareness Week

Meet A Tree Steward

Growing Works of Art

Fall Student Projects

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY COMMUNITIES CARING FOR TREE CANOPY VTUCF will once again be offering $40,000 in Tree Stewards at the recent Tree Steward Conference listening to Bill DeVos of grants. These grants Tree Works talk about, you guessed it, trees! offer communities seed Big changes are in store for this year's SOUL Tree Steward Program! money to help care for The course prepares participants to become stewards of the forest tree canopy by taking in which they live by covering topics from tree identification, necessary actions to biology and planting to resource assessment, landscape design and develop a sustainable conservation planning. NEW this year, the course will consist of a community‐wide tree series of four evening classes and two Saturday hands‐on sessions. program. They allow for Also,we will be offering a $10 discount to participants who are multiple program sponsored by their community. Experience for yourself or help components (planning, someone from your community experience the soul of VTUCF and planting, maitenance) to become part of an invaluable community forestry network of more be merged into one than 400 Vermonters! grant application to provide flexibility 2014 Course Dates Announced: March 19 through April 26 and to act on more than Four Wednesday evenings: 5:30pm‐8:30pm one program element at Two Saturdays: March 22nd and April 26th a time. Locations:The course will be offered at the following locations ‐ Grant documents will Berlin, Burlington, Middlebury, Springfield and St Johnsbury. be available on 1/20 Sessions will be held simultaneously using a combination of and applications are distance technology and on‐site instruction. Saturday sessions will due 4/11. require travel. Learn more Learn More ‐ Register Now A NEW ADDITION TO VTUCF FAMILY Pining for Trees on Cold Winter Nights? TREE (sort of) Join us for our Winter Webinar Series! This winter, we'll offer monthly webinars to keep you updated on the https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1116144754690&format=html&printFrame=true 1/5 2/2/2015 You Got TREEmail latest research, opportunities and threats to the urban forest. Webinars will run the third Wednesday of each month and last an hour. You do not have to be a SOUL Tree Steward to participate; however, these webinars are designed to support the network 2013 VT Tree Steward, Sue This winter, Elise of tree stewards around the state. Lovering, sets up an EAB 'singles Schadler will be joining site' of EAB look a likes to draw CEU's available for ISA, SAF and the VTUCF as the new attention to the issue. Will EAB pesticides. will be joining the webinars too? outreach professional.

Elise has held a joint Fun with Wood Decay Fungi position between UCF January 15th, 7‐8pm and UVM's Rubenstein Presenter: Isabel Munck, Forest Pathologist, USDA Forest Service School of Environment &

Natural Resources since Planning for EAB: Stories from Around the State 2012. Raised in the February 19th, 7‐8pm midwest, she discovered Presenters: Caitlin Cusack, VTUCF and Nancy Patch, her passion for urban Franklin/Grand Isle County Forester, Dept. of Forests, Parks and forestry as an Recreation with representatives from other communities. Americorps member and

went on to direct a tree Don't forget our growing list of archived webinars ‐ the best part ‐ program in Camden, NJ you can watch them when you want. before moving to Learn more and sign up! Vermont. She received her M.S. in Natural Resources from UVM and Vermont Tree Stewards Honored is excited about this new Exceptional volunteers, practitioners and communities opportunity to fully Each year, the Vermont Urban & Community engage with three of her Forestry Council sponsors the Vermont Tree very favorite things: Steward awards as a way to recognize VT's trees, community, and community tree champions. "They understand the Vermont. benefits trees provide and recognize that these benefits are maximized through careful planning and active stewardship," says David Raphael, CALENDAR Practitioner, David January & February Chair of the Council. Schneider, teaching pruning. Complete Streets VT's 2013 Tree Steward Award Recipients Workshops Leader: John Snell, Montpelier VT Local Roads Program Community: Village of Essex Junction Various locations. Volunteer Group: Hartford EAB Preparedness Group Youth/Student: Nick Trapeni, Rutland February 13 Practitioner: David Schneider, Rutland GreenWorks Winter Unsung Hero: Sue Lovering, Johnson Meeting and Trade Show Dedication and Service: Roland Payne, Cabot Burlington, VT

Read More March 19 ‐ April 26 2013 Tree Stewards SOUL Tree Steward Sue Lovering Awarded Unsung Hero Tree Steward Award Training Nick Trapeni Recognized as VT Student Tree Steward of the Year VTUCF. Various Hartford Won't Let EAB Get the Best of Them locations.

March 24 ‐ 26 TRAQ: Tree Risk Help us promote our pASHion Assessment Qualification Become a sponsor of VT's first Ash Tree Awareness Week! Burlington, VT https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1116144754690&format=html&printFrame=true 2/5 2/2/2015 You Got TREEmail Can you tell your ash from your maple? VTUCF and NE‐ISA If you answered yes, then you're in the More details soon. minority. It turns out most people cannot identify an ash tree and, March 31 therefore, have no idea what sort of Municipal Day at impact an invasive exotic insect such as National Life: A day of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) will have workshops for VTs local until it's too late. This event will focus government officials. Windham County Forester, Bill on the trees to show Vermonters how Montpelier, VT Guenther, measures Vermont's Champion white ash prominate ash trees are in the state from ANR tree in Westminster. Learn street trees to woodlands. More details soon. more about VT's Big Trees. Experience shows that the more people that understand the impact, the April 22 & 23 more engaged they will become. Raising the Bar: Green Stormwater VTUCF and partners will sponsor a week‐long statewide Ash Tree Infrastructure Planning Awareness Week during the week leading up to Arbor Day (April 27‐ and Design. May 3) in order to: South Burlington, VT More details soon. Celebrate and recognize the valuable contributions of ash trees. April 27 ‐ May 3 Continue to raise awareness about the impacts of EAB. Ash Tree Awareness Week. A celebration of Help us promote our valuable ASHets! VT's vital ASHets. Learn more May 2 Arbor Day. What are you Meet A Tree Steward doing? Colchester Tree Champion, Tim Moran Vermont Forest Pest Upon completion of the SOUL Tree Steward course, Tim Moran First Detector Training chose to fulfill his 20‐hour volunteer Willmington VT commitment by conducting a shade tree May 17 inventory for the Town of Colchester in 9:30am‐5pm conjunction with VTUCF. Although the

town had developed a Street Tree Master Essex, VT, Date TBD, Plan in 2001, that plan primarily addressed 9:30am‐5pm specifications for tree plantings in new

developments as well as recommendations Vermont Woodlands to replace trees or improve plantings along Association Events existing roadways. However, as no tree Tim is celebrating finishing inventory had been conducted previously, collecting data on 663 American Planning there was no solid basis for recommending trees along 33 streets. Association Webcasts certain tree varieties nor had anyone

studied the overall picture to determine predominant species in EPAs Green specific neighborhoods and whether different species of trees Infrastructure Webcasts would be better suited, depending on planting location, susceptibility to diseases and insect pests and other factors. Lack of an inventory also meant that few ordinances have been put into RESOURCES place (other than state statutes) to protect or manage the town's Storm Damage Resources trees, especially along residential streets, or to restore areas where for Trees and Forests trees were cleared to make way for development.

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Initiative just released a Become a SOUL Tree Steward. Classes start March 19th. series of Low Impact Development (LID) info sheets. https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1116144754690&format=html&printFrame=true 3/5 2/2/2015 You Got TREEmail Growing Works of Art Contest Low Impact Development Entries due February 28th VTUCF is offering a fun Conservation opportunity to engage students in Development grades 1‐8 to learn about trees. This contest, 'Growing Works of Art,' is Minimize Soil meant to enrich students' Compaction knowledge about Vermont's trees and provide them with an Minimize Total opportunity to author what will Disturbance become a set of trading cards to be Photo credit: Rebecca Phelps collected by students across the Protect Natural Water state. This year's contest will Flows celebrate ash trees ‐ species Fraxinus ‐ an important species in both Vermont's woodlands and developed landscapes. A highly Protect Riparian invasive forest pest, emerald ash borer (EAB), while not currently Buffers found in Vermont, threatens our state's estimated 150 million ash trees. Protect Sensitive Areas

For more information about the Growing Works of Art contest, examples of past contest winners and instructions on how to submit Stormwater entries, click here. Disconnection

Reduce Impervious Students Learn through Doing Surfaces Over 275 UVM Students Engage in Urban Forestry this Fall Stormwater Disconnection UVM continues to be an ally in helping the VTUCF to provide support to communities to maintain, understand, and care for trees. This fall semester, eight courses included FEATURE TREE a community service‐learning project The Society of Municipal with a focus on urban trees; Arborists have selected additionally, three paid internships their 2014 Urban Tree of provided opportunities for motivated the Year: Parrotia students to take the lead on an urban persica 'Vanessa' forestry project. Highlights include:

200+ freshmen in Natural History & Field Ecology taking data on the health and Photo credit: Walter Poleman composition of Burlington's urban forest for the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative; An intern coordinating an effort involving four separate courses to better understand the ecological, cultural, and economic value of eight VT village greens and the trees on them; Ash tree inventories in Essex Junction and Richford and an ash tree tagging event in Burlington (see the Burlington Free Press article here); and The development of a new curriculum about how trees can provide energy‐saving benefits, sponsored in part by the Vermont Electric Power Company FOREST HEALTH https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1116144754690&format=html&printFrame=true 4/5 2/2/2015 You Got TREEmail For more information about how students might be able to help UPDATE your community achieve its urban and community forest goals, Check out the 2013 contact [email protected]. Vermont Forest Health Highlights for information on our QUICK LINKS state's forest resource, About us the threats it faces, and Library how people and agencies Staff are involved in its Urban & Community Forestry Council protection!

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