Community Forestry Program Work Team, Cornell Univ. Community Forestry Home Page Community Forestry Planning Developing a Master Plan Acknowledgments (work team members) Conducting a Street Tree Inventory Street Tree Project History Hiring the SWAT Team Using Local Volunteers Using Municipal Staff Training Procedure Utilizing the street tree inventory PR Documents and Training Downloads Tree Inventory Template Download Resources Site contact: Dr. Nina L. Bassuk Dept. of Horticulture Room 20 Plant Science Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: (607) 255-4586 Fax:(607) 255-9998 Email: nlb2@cornell.edu Community Forestry Conducting a Street Tree Inventory Student Weekend-Arborist Team (SWAT) Within one weekend, trained horticulture and natural resource students perform an inventory of your community trees for a fee plus expenses Time Frame - one weekend Cost - less than $3,000.00 Benefits - useful for communities with 1000-2000 street trees, and/or with a diverse list of tree species What we are offering To work with your community to set up the management planning process. To organize the completion of an inventory of all the street trees within your municipal boundaries. To gather data on tree species distribution, health and maintenance needs. To determine location of existing plantable spaces. To provide you with a list of appropriate species for new planting. To help you formulate a management plan for your community. To provide an electronic copy of the entire inventory so that you can keep it up to date. What we need from you Someone will need to be designated as our contact person during this process. There needs to be a municipal staff person assigned to keep and update the electronic database that will be provided. Signoff from a public official supporting the project. The computer software necessary would be Access or Excel. We will need up-to-date street maps and right-of-way measurements for each street. After the data is collected and summarized, attend a one-day workshop to walk through the process of creating a planning document. How much this will cost In a pilot project conducted in the fall of 2002, college students from the agriculture and forestry schools in New York (Cornell-Agriculture, Morrisville, and Syracuse-Environmental Science and Forestry) were used under our supervision. Using approximately 12 students, we completed the data collection stage during one weekend in September. The students collected data using small hand held computers. Cost for the student wages ($10/hr) plus room and board, if necessary. We estimate this at less than $3000. We can point out grant funds that can help to cover the cost of this program. If interested in this street tree inventory method, fill out the downloadable Tree Inventory Project Application (.pdf | .html) To find out how the inventory can be used, go to Utilizing the street tree inventory. © Copyright, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University.