Asbury Park picked for Urban Forest Assessment
Conservation group to take stock of city's trees
Asbury Park has been selected as one of five cities to receive free urban forest assessments over the next six months.
American Forests, a national conservation organization, notified the city’s Environment and Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] chair, Tom Pivinski, of their selection of the city last week. Pivinski [pictured above, left, with fellow ESTC member Russell Lewis] shared the news at the May 1 council meeting.
The assessment will include aerial photography to get a sense of the city’s “urban canopy,” Pivinski said. A team will measure and grade every tree in town and use a computer program to store the tree’s condition, age, life, how much carbon dioxide it takes in, how much oxygen it produces, and what its general benefits are, he said.
Pivinski and the ESTC are “very proud” that Asbury Park was selected along with Pasadena, Calif., Atlanta, Ga., Detroit and Nashville, he said.
Pivinski “does amazing work with the Shade Tree Commission,” Councilwoman Sue Henderson said.
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