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Author
Dentice, Dana
Title
Tree City USA Communities, 2011
Series
Wisconsin Urban and Community Forests, Vol. 20, #1, Spring/Summer 2012
Publisher
Wiscosin DNR, Forestry Division
City
Madison
Date
2012
Original Date
Libraries
LOW MAD
URL (full text)
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/UrbanForests/documents/vol20no1.pdf
Comments

Lists the following Tree Cities of interest: Ashland, Marshfield, Merrill, Stevens Point, Superior, Tomahawk, Washburn, and Wausau. Article lists criteria for being a Tree City as: 1) a designated tree board or forestry department, 2) a tree care ordinance, 3) an annual forestry program expenditure of at least $2 per capita, and 4) observe and proclaim Arbor Day. The Tree City USA program is sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation and administered in Wisconsin by the DNR. It also lists UW-Stevens Poiint as one of three Tree Campus USA in Wisconsin.