City of Tampa Urban and Community Forestry Grant: Toward the Development of a Strategy for Urban Forest Sustainability

Working with the City of Tampa, the goal of this project was to develop initial Strategies for Urban Forest Sustainability and prepare many of the elements necessary to eventually create a comprehensive Urban Forestry Master Plan. Led by the University of South Florida, University of Florida and IFAS Extension Services, vision, goals and strategies were developed through a stakeholder driven, publicly supported process that built upon the results of existing scientific efforts. Efforts included a well attended Mayor’s Symposium on Community Trees and the Urban Forest and a five-month visioning process with the Mayor’s Steering Committee on Urban Forest Sustainability. Recommendations from this process were implemented by the City of Tampa Parks and Recreation Department and included in the Tampa Comprehensive Plan: Building Our Legacy A Livable City adopted in 2009.
Sponsor: City of Tampa
Principal Investigator: Shawn Landry (PI) , B. Terry Johnson (Co-PI)
Start Date: May 2008
End Date: March 2009

Related Publications:

	City of Tampa Urban Ecological Analysis 1975-1996
	Author: Kyle Campbell and Shawn Landry Format: pdf Date: 1999
	Description: The Urban Ecological Analysis quantified how Tampa's tree canopy has changed over time, modeled the effects of the forest on the local ecology, and assessed the economic impact of the forest..

	City of Tampa Urban Ecological Analysis 2006-2007: Final Report to the City of Tampa, April 24, 2008.
	Author: Andreu, Michael G., Melissa H. Friedman, Shawn M. Landry and Robert J. Northrop Format: pdf File Size: 2000 kb Date: 2008
	Description: Through a collaborative effort that involved the University of Florida, the University of South Florida, and the Hillsborough County Extension, an extensive inventory of Tampa’s urban forest was undertaken and analyzed during 2007. The inventory provided baseline information on location, composition, structure, and health while the analysis determined ecological function and economic value..

	A Report on the City of Tampa’s Existing and Possible Urban Tree Canopy
	Author: Shawn M. Landry, Dr. Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman and Robert J. Northrop Format: pdf Date: 2009
	Description: The analysis of Tampa’s existing and possible urban tree canopy was completed as a follow-up to the City of Tampa Urban Ecological Analysis conducted in 2006-2007. Our goal was to leverage the high resolution geospatial datasets developed during the Urban Ecological Analysis to compute UTC metrics at the parcel level and summarize this information both by land use and by spatial distribution..

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