Partners in Community Forestry National Conference
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Save the date: Orlando—November 15–17, 2011

Presented by:

  • Home Depot Foundation
  • Arbor Day Foundation

Partnering Organizations

  • ACT—Tree by Tree, Street by Street
  • Society of Municipal Arborists
  • Utility Arborist Association

Gold Level Sponsors

  • Davey—Proud Sponsor of the Internet Café
  • Urban & Community Forestry
  • Asplundh
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Pacific Gas & Electric Company
  • Department of Agriculture—Forest Service
  • Toyota
  • PECO Energy

Silver Level Sponsors

  • Jarraff
  • Nelson Tree Service
  • Trees Inc.

Bronze Level Sponsors

  • Vermeer Corporation

Tour Opportunities

Partners in Community Forestry National Conference

Sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation

Motor Coach Tours

Philadelphia offers many examples of partnerships in the management of its community trees. All three tours highlight collaboration and resource sharing between municipal agencies, utility providers and non-profit tree-planting groups.

West Philadelphia Tour

8:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

West Philadelphia
  • Kingsessing Recreation Center will showcase a double allée of trees along the perimeter of this popular neighborhood recreation center. Some older plantings remain as well as newer street trees. This is a collaborative effort with UC Green and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
  • View street tree plantings along Baltimore Pike, highlighting an ongoing multi-municipality project to revitalize a mixed commercial/residential corridor. Stop at Sycamore Park, the home of the symbol of Lansdowne: a majestic 300-year-old Sycamore tree.
  • We will drive along Cobbs Creek Parkway, which is adjacent to Cobbs Creek, a major section of Fairmount Park.
  • Papa Playground/Morris Park will showcase Fairmount Park Commission’s work with the surrounding community on dozens of tree plantings within the park.
  • Fairmount Park Centennial Arboretum and Horticulture Center is the highlight of Philadelphia’s park system with dozens of trees planted for the 1876 Centennial Exposition.

North Philadelphia, Northern Liberties & Camden, NJ Tour

8:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

North Philadelphia
  • North Philadelphia is a model neighborhood that will showcase a wide range of urban greening work among various partners. Affordable housing, transit-oriented development, vacant lot greening and stormwater management will be a part of this tour stop.
  • Liberty Lands is the site of a stormwater management project. The project was designed by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS)and funded by the Philadelphia Water Department/PA-DEP to alleviate stormwater loads on local waste water systems. It was also designed to demonstrate methods that should be implemented region-wide. Neighbors also work in the community gardens here that contribute to the PHS City Harvest program.
  • Drive down Columbus Boulevard to see PHS Landscape Management work.
  • The New Jersey Tree Foundation started its Urban Airshed Reforestation Program (UARP) in Camden City, N.J. to mitigate air pollution in this ozone non-attainment area of South Jersey. For the past eight years, the UARP has offered free street trees to Camden residents, schools, churches and non-profits. These tree plantings allow Camden residents to claim ownership of their block and beautify the area they call home. To date, the New Jersey Tree Foundation has planted 3,835 trees with 126 community organizations and more than 7,300 volunteers.

Walking Tour

8:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Philadelphia

This tour will leave the Loews Hotel at 8:30 AM and will return by 10:30 AM on foot and will travel to The Schuylkill Banks Trail part of Philadelphia’s newest riverfront destination with a landscaped walking and biking trail that connects to Fairmount Park trails all along the Schuylkill River.