Town To Create Urban Forest Administration Program

As Fremont, the Bay Area’s fourth biggest town, celebrates its 65th anniversary Saturday, it is embarking on setting up an City Forest Management Approach to establish a extensive-term solution to enhancing its urban forest with significant, achievable ambitions.

Fremont, integrated Jan. 23, 1956, is a expanding suburban metropolis of just about 250,000 citizens and is a single of the state’s greatest cities in space. Inside its just about 90 square miles are living somewhere around 80,000 community and avenue trees.

Metropolis leaders are striving to decrease Fremont’s carbon footprint by functioning to lessen net greenhouse gas emissions. In 2019, Cal Fire awarded the town an $860,000 grant less than the Proposition 68 Urban Forest Management Actions Grant Software. The primary prerequisite of the grant is to cut down people net greenhouse gas emissions.

Very last September, Fremont finished a citywide tree inventory and cover assessment as portion of its method.


The purpose of completing the Urban Forest Management Prepare is to develop a flourishing city forest make suggestions on arranging, policy and procedures to attain targeted City Forestry targets, reduction of greenhouse gasoline emissions, management approaches and stakeholder opinions and to raise group outreach prospects to have interaction with Fremont residents.

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