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Safe Urban Forestry [1]

Safe Ideas While Social Distancing
 
  • Safe places to experience nature while social distancing: Openlands guide [2].
  • Learn and earn ISA ceus with these upcoming webinars [3] or these archived webinars [4]. 
  • Help CRTI identify the region's challenges and win $100 gift card! Take the CRTI Tree Management Survey [5] [6]
  • What should you look out for? The Morton Arboretum Plant Health Care Report [7]
  • Work on your tree management plans or tree preservation ordinances- email EOkallau@mortonarb.org [8]
  • Need to hire a contractor? Check out this statement from ISA and TCIA about which services are essential. [9]
  • Fund your forestry programs with a grant from this list. [10]
  • Convince your board or manager not to cut the forestry budget with this video and Tree Risk Toolkit [11]
  • Get your town, park, cemetery, or other beautiful space certified as an arboretum through ArbNet. Learn more with this presentation [12] and accompanying script [13].
  • Resources to share with residents
      -  What’s that tree?
            iNaturalist [14] - great, free app for tree identification
            The Morton Arboretum Plant Clinic [15]
      -  Where to find trees
            Native Plant Sales [16]
            Nursery Tree Inventory [17] (including nurseries that sell direct to residents)
      -  How to plant trees?
            Video series on planting and care from The Morton Arboretum [18]
      -  Citizen Science
            Nature’s Notebook [19]
            Project BudBurst [20]
OUR IMPACT

Our goal is to make a significant, measurable improvement to the regional forest and the lives of its inhabitants by the year 2050. Learn more

LEAD PARTNERS

The Morton Arboretum, Openlands, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, Chicago Park District, Forest Preserves of Cook County, Illinois Arborist Association, Illinois Green Industry Association, Illinois Landscape Contractors Association, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, The Nature Conservancy, TREE Fund, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Forest Service. Learn more

Contact Us

CRTI
c/o The Morton Arboretum
4100 Illinois Route 53
Lisle, IL 60532
630-719-5646
Twitter @ChicagoRTI

Learn more


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Links
[1] http://chicagorti.org/SafeUrbanForestry
[2] https://www.openlands.org/2020/03/18/covid-19-what-natural-areas-are-open-and-the-guidelines-to-follow/
[3] http://ChicagoRTI.org/events
[4] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KLUhFekU8TbYXy6yNGP_hJs_loqAHw_vsqJ6Kheno-A/edit?usp=sharing
[5] http://chicagorti.org/MGMTsurvey
[6] http://chicagorti.org/sites/chicagorti/files/CPD_Lincoln elm - winter.jpg
[7] https://www.mortonarb.org/news-publication/plant-healthcare-report
[8] mailto:EOkallau@mortonarb.org
[9] https://www.tcia.org/TCIAPdfs/TCIA-ISA-Joint-Statement-of-Essential-Services.pdf
[10] http://chicagorti.org/Grants
[11] http://ChicagoRTI.org/ReduceCosts
[12] http://chicagorti.org/sites/chicagorti/files/City%20Arboreta%20Presentation_0.pdf
[13] http://chicagorti.org/sites/chicagorti/files/City%20Arboreta%20Presentation%20Script.pdf
[14] https://www.inaturalist.org/
[15] https://www.mortonarb.org/trees-plants/tree-and-plant-advice/plant-clinic
[16] http://chicagorti.org/nativeplantsales
[17] http://chicagorti.org/NurseryTreeInventory
[18] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOfUesS9O8M5yM-qD7iq-w9IAiHAKXFoB
[19] https://www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook
[20] https://budburst.org/