Urban ForestryTodd Beals
2014 The Garden Club of America Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry
Todd Beals is a junior at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, majoring in Arboriculture and Community Forestry with a minor in Information Technology. He has been in the green industry for over 18 years and helped to develop the sofware itreetools for the USDA Forest Service which is now the international standard for urban natural resource analysis. His project: Urban Forest Survivability, Viability and Effects on Micro-Climate, focuses on 1800 newly planted trees in Springfield, MA, that re-populate an area devastated by the 2011 tornado.
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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