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Mission
Our urban and community trees and forests are vital parts of America's infrastructure and essential to the well-being of our individual human health and welfare. Through the use of a properly designed, high quality planting and maintenance program, our communities will benefit from cooler summer air, warmer homes in winter, cleaner air and water, quieter streets, peaceful neighborhoods, healthy and productive local economies, and overall improved and expanded urban environments for all Americans.
Thus the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council shall work to improve America's communities by recommending policies which:
- cultivate a public understanding and appreciation of the values and benefits derived from high quality tree plantings and the necessity for the proper techniques to maintain, conserve, and manage urban trees, community forests and related resources;
- foster effective, self-sustaining municipal and volunteer community forestry programs;
- emphasize development of educational systems for competent training of people working in all aspects of community forestry;
- stimulate increased funding from traditional and non-traditional sources for planning and planting of high quality new trees, and care of our existing community trees and forests;
- encourage greatly expanded research into the problems of urban trees, forests and the environment, and assure widespread distribution of results of research in useful and relevant formats; and
- promote private enterprise and homeowners as valuable partners in the preservation and management of urban trees and forests.
