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CTMI: Community Tree Management Institute.
CTMI: Community Tree Management Institute is a unique project aiming to develop a series of advanced educational sessions, specifically tailored to the needs of municipal tree managers that do not have an urban forestry background. CTMI will have a resource booklet and training exercises addressing each aspect of urban forestry, involve web-based courses, assess the project's usefulness in terms of awareness and capacity building for municipal workers, and disseminate project results nationwide.
Texas Cooperative Extension and the Texas Forest Service have partnered with several municipalities to develop and implement this systematic approach to increase municipal employees = involvement in urban forestry. On the recommendation of the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council, the USDA Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program awarded a $60,984 grant to the $124,017 project. For further information, contact Darwin Foster, Texas Cooperative Extension Forestry Unit, 302A HORT/FRSC Building 2135 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2135. Phone: (979) 845-1351. E-mail: cdfoster@ag.tamu.edu.
(2004 Communicating the Value of Urban and Community Forestry)
