The Mississippi Urban Forest
Council
Is proud to assist
the Mississippi Forestry
Commission
In announcing
“NEW” Urban and Community
Forestry
Katrina Recovery Grants
Proposals are due: December 1, 2006 and March 1, 2007
Applications can be found at:
MUFC will
assist cities, counties and other
organizations write these proposals.
Contact Donna Yowell, executive director at dyowell@aol.com or
601-672-0755 or
164 Trace
Cove Drive,
Madison,
Mississippi 39110
www.msurbanforest.com
1. The National Arbor Day Foundation
has a complete (I mean complete) storm
damage PR package at : http://www.arborday.org/media/stormrecovery/
2. This
web site gives some good basic advice and then directs to
a link at the bottom for more particulars on caring for storm
damaged trees: http://texasforestservice.tamu.edu/shared/article.asp?DocumentID=1108
3. Following
is a link to the Mid-America Regional Council (Kansas City
area) website where there are links to 2 pdf files that will
be of interest. The first, Tree Information Guide is a series
of 7 one page bulletins, designed for city staffs and officials
- probably exactly what you want, except you will need to
modify tree species, etc. for Mississippi. The other is a
tree policy guide for cities. A coalition put these together
after a bad ice storm here in KC. They have been very useful:
http://www.marc.org/watershed/trees.htm
4. The
Right Tree Right Place website, www.RightTreeRightPlace.com
,also put together at the same time, is
also still active. This was designed for homeowners, also
in the KC area, but much of the information will apply anywhere.
This is best used by just giving out the website address (once
some people are back on line). It helped a lot with those
homeowner calls about 'what should I plant' and 'should this
tree be removed'. This site does link to the NADF storm recovery
information too.
5. Booklet
"Storms over the Urban Forest is
available from the Mississippi Urban Forest Council free by
request or web site: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/uf/sotuf/sotuf.htm
6. Scenic
Communities Resource Guide and Toolkits lists
statewide organizations and agencies offering technical and
financial assistance on a variety of natural resource issues.
Look under Scenic Communities of Mississippi on this web site.
7. USDA Forest Service's comprehensive
on-line resource for urban forestry
Information in the southern region, including tree ordinances,
manual and other ... http://www.urbanforestrysouth.org/
8. Economics - Costs or values of
trees within the urban forest. ... Management
of the total aggregation of trees found in a given community.
...
Department of Forestry/MSU Extension Disaster Tax Deductions
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/uf/sotuf/chapter_11/appendix_keywords.htm
http://www.treesafterthestorm.org/
Trees And
The Storm - Katrina 2005
Treelink Weather Resources
Storms over the Urban Forest
Urban
Forestry South (Trees and Storm Damage)
Alabama
Cooperative Ext. System (Safer Trees Guide)
"If Trees Could
Talk" Along the MS Gulf Coast
For additional technical or financial
assistance in recovery and replanting projects please contact
the Mississippi Urban Forest Council, Donna Yowell at 601-672-0755
or dyowell@aol.com
or the Mississippi Forestry Commission
at 601-359-1386.
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