What is Urban and Community Forestry (U&CF)?
U&CF focuses on the economic, environmental and social relationships that develop between people and plants within a community. In Kansas the preference has been to refer to this program as the Community Forestry Program as the majority of the general public live in smaller, more rural communities. As a profession, Community Forestry is the planting and management of trees and green-spaces on publicly-owned properties, such as parks, greenbelts, natural areas and right-of-ways (city easements). While there may be many definitions of U&CF, the general goal is to create safe, healthy, sustainable and more livable communities by integrating trees and plants into our cities and towns.
