City of Fernandina Beach
MEDIA RELEASE
Kelly Gibson, AICP
(904) 310-3135
August 25, 2017 – noon
The City of Fernandina Beach, FL, is pleased to welcome ArborPro USA staff as they work to complete the remainder of the City’s urban forest inventory over the next few weeks. Efforts for the mapping and evaluation of trees will be concentrated south of Sadler Road on City rights-of-way, the municipal golf course, and the airport and leasehold areas. ArborPro USA has been contracted to work with the City and will have several arborists out mapping trees starting on Friday, August 25, 2017. The inventory will not take place on private lands. The only trees to be mapped and cataloged are those within public rights-of-way and public open space areas.
In October 2016, the City received an Urban and Community Forestry grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to complete an inventory of street and open space trees for the southern sections of the City Limits. The City’s current tree inventory was created in 2009 and has been routinely maintained by the Planning Department since that time. This effort will add to the existing inventory to complete the dataset. The data collected serves to provide City personnel with critical information necessary to effectively manage the existing tree stock and serves to support efforts for future tree planting areas.
For More information about the City’s tree management plan please check www.fbfl.us/trees or contact the Community Development Department at (904) 310-3135.
Very important!! Thank you!!
Live oaks have many benefits – one of which is island stabilization. We have been losing so many due to development and age. What is being done to encourage people to replace/replant these beautiful trees? Is the city working on a replacement plan? I hope there will be future articles on the value live oaks offer to the island.