Urban ForestryElise Willis
2022 The Garden Club of America Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry
Greening Development: Curbing Urban Tree-Canopy Loss and Increasing Green Infrastructure Adoption through Incentives
Willis’s project aims to find solutions to Florida’s decades-long, development-induced tree-canopy loss. Through interviews with land developers across the state, Willis will identify what incentives would encourage planting, preservation, and prioritization of trees in development projects. Willis hopes the finding will provide local governments with data to guide future policy discussions.
The Garden Club of America Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry
To advance the field of urban forestry by encouraging students to study the planning, management, horticulture and ecology of urban forests, and the effect of healthy urban forests on people and the environment.
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