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citizen foresters in action!
helping "green" Fort Worth & the Cross Timbers region
In Fall 2005, the Cross Timbers Urban Forestry Council (CTUFC) received a matching partnership grant from the Texas Forest Service to develop the Citizen Forester program. As members of the CTUFC, City of Fort Worth Forestry staff took lead responsibility for implementing the program. Other Cross Timbers members serve as guest speakers and assist as field training supervisors. The first training program began in January and was completed in June 2006. Twenty-seven of the 29 participants completed the intensive 6-month training portion of the program and now go on to support their local communities by agreeing to provide a minimum of 25 hours of volunteer service in support of tree projects on public property. Congratulations to these dedicated individuals!  Citizen Forester will enter into its forth season in 2009.

For more information about becoming a Citizen Forester or learning how these volunteers can assist with projects involving trees on public property in your community, please contact Melanie Migura at 817.871.5739.

Learn more about our partner, Cross Timbers Urban Forestry Council.

The photos below illustrate just some of the training & projects in which Citizen Foresters are involved.

(Photos provided by Marilyn Sallee, Citizen Forester)


Citizen Foresters are hard at work in mid-January pruning a median of crape myrtles in Fort Worth.


Under the guidance of Courtney Blevins, Texas Forest Service, a Citizen Forester prunes a cedar elm along the I-30/I-35 corridor in Fort Worth.


A Citizen Forester trainee measures the DBH of a tree.


 Citizen Foresters and Melinda Adams, City of Fort Worth, measure to determine the proper depth of the planting hole. In March, Citizen Foresters planted 21 trees in Fort Worth’s Kingswood Park which was previously treeless.


Prior to pruning, Citizen Foresters discuss the proper way to prune this newly established tree with Steve Chaney, Texas Cooperative Extension.


Citizen Foresters attend a pruning presentation at the Fort Worth Zoo. Each monthly training session includes a morning of classroom instruction and an afternoon of hands-on field training.


Citizen Foresters receive training to recognize tree hazards from Melinda Adams, City of Fort Worth.


During the May training, Citizen Foresters work with Renee Burke of City of Plano, to conduct a tree inventory of Fort Worth’s Bluebonnet Circle Park using PDAs and the free MCTI software program.


Citizen Foresters collect and record data and measure the height of a tree.


Citizen Foresters learn tree identification from Courtney Blevins, Texas Forest Service, during the May training session.