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Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network
of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with help from
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
The
Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly
webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to create informal
trainings for local urban and community forestry
organizations.
The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and
approaches.
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Trees and Transportation
July
17, 2008
1:00-
2:00pm EDT
Trees and landscape features that are located
within the public right-of-way and adjacent to roadways in urban
environments are often perceived by transportation officials as a
safety risk. Tree plantings may be limited or prohibited by public
works or transportation professionals due to concerns. But there are
many community benefits that result from having roadside landscapes.
Armed with that information, advocates of urban forestry are
encouraging roadside plantings that balance transportation mobility,
accessibility needs, public welfare, and community livability.
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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* Creating a design and selecting plants at highway projects.
* Involving volunteers and educating the community.
* Seeking funding and writing grants.
* Participation of city and state DOT officials.
* Interacting with business representatives.
* Management and maintenance of a planting site.
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IOWA'S LIVING ROADWAYS
Pamela
Helfer, Field Director, Trees Forever (Marion, IA)
Since 1996, Trees Forever has helped small communities in Iowa envision
and design community-wide landscape improvements that enhance
transportation corridors. The program called, Iowa's Living Roadways,
and it provides resources and assistance with planning, landscape
design, and funding opportunities for planting native grasses,
wildflowers, shrubs, and trees.
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SCENIC BYWAYS AND TREE-LINED HIGHWAYS
Dorothy McDaniel, Executive
Director, Trees Columbus (Columbus, GA)
Trees Columbus, in partnership with Columbus
Consolidated Government, received three $1 million grants from the
Georgia Department of Transportation to create a tree-lined entryway to
the city along Veterans Parkway between 13th Street and the Civic
Center. They also worked with local partners to have I-185 declared a
Scenic Byway and to seek further protection for public right-of-way
trees through advocacy and litigation.
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NEIGHBORWOODS NETWORK EXCHANGE
Extended Learning- On the Ground
There is so much more that can be learned in a week than in an hour,
and on the ground as opposed to on a webcast. So here is your chance!
Join the webcast to learn more about the NeighborWoods Network Exchange and how you can spend a week shadowing another ACT member.
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