regional tree and shade summit presentations & a discussion on cultivating green infrastructure...

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

Solutions:

Solutions:

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

irene.ogata@tucsonaz.gov : edavisontrees@gmail.com

Questions