Forestry Sponsors: Mississippi Forestry Commission,
USDA Forest
Service, MS State Extension Service
Page Index
1. Upcoming Classes
2. What is Master Urban Forestry Training?
3.
Benefits to your community
4. How
can a Master Urban Forestry Training program be started in my community?
5.
Register today!
Upcoming Classes:
Sept. 29 & Oct.
27 - 9 AM- 4 PM -Pass Christian Library
Sponsored by the City of
Pass
Christian & Friends of Pass Christian
Nov. 1
& 2 - Olivia Bender Cafeteria,
Poplarville Campus
Sponsored by
Pearl
River C.C.
Hinds Community
College
– TBA
Call or email for
dates & location
dyowell@aol.com or 601-672-0755
Jackson County
- TBA
Call or email for
dates & location
dyowell@aol.com or 601-672-0755
Philadelphia, MS
– TBA
Call or email for
dates & location
dyowell@aol.com or 601-672-0755
What is Master Urban Forestry Training?
Benefits to your community:
Urban forests are all the trees and other vegetation that grow in places where people
live, work, and play, from small communities in rural areas to large metropolitan
cities. This includes trees on public and private land, along streets, in residential
areas, parks, and commercial developments, and in other locations within a community.
This training will help you understand and communicate the many advantages of, and
the expenses associated with, the growth, and management of urban forests.
Free community volunteers
Trained volunteers & city workers
Assess to grant and other resources
Beautification of your community
Better management of local trees
Planting right tree in the right place to reduce future
costs
Increase property values
Improve environmental issues
Create better places to live, work & play
Plus many more benefits……………...
How can Master Urban Forestry Training be started
in my community?
On behalf of the
Mississippi
Urban Forest Council (MUFC) I would like
to invite you to participate in several projects that would be helpful to your community’s development. As MUFC’s new board
president, I encourage you to join MUFC to learn more about urban forestry benefits
for your community,” Mayor Gene McGee.
As a result of Hurricane Katrina,
our organization has received federal funding to provide urban forestry services
to the cities impacted by the storm.
The free opportunities we can offer
these cities include:
1. Master Urban Forestry Training for your city employees, citizens and others.
2. Supplies to establish a city tree nursery.
3. Space to highlight your community recovery and tree projects in the 2nd
edition of the
Mississippi Municipal League’s Special Edition of Urban Forestry.
The free programs are limited to Hurricane
Katrina impacted communities only and have limited availability, so please contact
us by August 31, 2007 if you are interested or need more information.
Services we can offer all MUFC member
communities in the state include:
1. Grant Resources and quarterly mailings
2. Virtual Green Make-Overs and CMO credits
3. Updates on all resources for community and urban
forestry/Tree City
USA
Training
4. Participation on the committee “Mayor’s
for Urban Forestry”
5. Master Urban Forestry Training at a nominal fee
6. Comprehensive urban forestry (green infrastructure) planning for your community
Please call to participate in any
of the programs offered to all cities.
City membership to the Mississippi Urban Forest Council is only $100 annually and
will provide a variety
of
valuable benefits to your city.
You may contact me at (601) 672-0755
or
dyowell@aol.com.
Sincerely, Donna Yowell,
Executive Director
Mississippi
Urban Forest Council
164 Trace
Cove Drive
Madison, MS 39110
Register Today:
I wish to participate in the Master Urban Forestry training offered by the
Mississippi
Urban Forest Council, the
Mississippi
Forestry Commission and partners. I
understand that in exchanged for the training I will volunteer at least 25 hours of community service, either on public or private property.
I understand I will only become certified upon my completion of training
and volunteer work.
Name:
___________________________________________
Organization or City:
___________________________________________
Position:
___________________________________________
Volunteer for:
___________________________________________
Address:
___________________________________________
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