• Montana Cities
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Urban and Community Forestry Program Funds - $90,000 available (3:1 match requirement). Projects may take place anywhere in the state.

• This year’s theme is Longevity and Readiness – Planning, Risk Mitigation & Tree Health

  Focus: Laying the groundwork for long-term urban forest health through planning, risk management, and proactive care.

  Key Concepts:

  • Conducting tree inventories and creating urban forest management plans, including tree protection during construction
  • Emergency planning, tree emergency manual development, and disaster recovery
  • Risk mitigation for pests, storms, and natural disasters
  • Pruning, tree repair, hazard tree removals, and canopy health
  • Homeowner education on general tree care and maintenance

  Example Projects:

  • Conduct new or update existing tree inventories
  • Develop or update management plan, including tree protection
  • Create preparedness plans (e.g. development for storm readiness or emergency, post-disaster tree maintenance plan creation, invasive species, such as EAB)
  • Utilize existing inventory to create workplans to address dead or dying trees, particularly, removals of hazardous trees in higher traffic areas (with an emphasis on ash), and updating the inventory with new, replacement species
  • Utilizing appropriately timed, proper pruning techniques to train young trees and maintenance pruning of medium to large trees in efforts to improve structure and health in overall existing canopies
  • Homeowner and neighborhood tree care workshops

Please review the Request for Proposal for more details.