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The community must have a tree board or department. The community must have established a community ordinance for tree care. There must be a community forestry program with an annual budget of at least $2 per capita. The community must have an Arbor Day observance and proclamation.
Downtown Morenci will get new trees and create a community outreach program with a $218,165 grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Morenci gets grant to fund tree-planting and ...
Community forestry is a participatory model of forestry that gained prominence in the 1970s in which local communities take an active role in forest management and land use decision making. Community forestry is defined by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations as "any situation that intimately involves local people in ...
The Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) provides assistance to non-industrial private forest owners by encouraging and enabling them for long-term forest management. The program provides landowners with information on development and multi-source planning in an effort to manage private forests for goods and services.
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The community members benefit directly from the food, and the trees provide lumber and a fuel source. These same trees also help to reduce the cutting down of the newly restored forests and protected areas. Recognizing that these new forests are vulnerable, Eden constructs guard towers at planting sites.
The organization advocates for forest preservation and assists local protection efforts where possible. Community forests that may not be as large, ecologically diverse, or as stringently protected can be inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network's Community Forest program. Many of the oldest forests in the United States are privately owned.