Acknowledgements

This report was created by the Delaware Center for Horticulture (DCH) in partnership with Trees for Wilmington, a working group of the Wilmington Beautification Commission.

This project was funded in part through grants from the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, by recommendation of the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC) and Community Environmental Penalty Funds of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC). Additional support was provided by the Carolyn Foundation, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) – University of Delaware, City of Wilmington, Delaware Forest Service, New Castle County, and the generous members of DCH.

Special thanks to: Erika Farris, Robert Hoehn, Vikram Krishnamurthy, Andrea Mosher, Martha Corrozi Narvaez, David Nowak, Henry Poole and Bonnie Swan.

We congratulate Dr. Nowak for his Nobel Prize in 2007 as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, awarded in recognition for his many years researching and quantifying the environmental benefits of trees.

The UFORE Model program was created by the U.S. Forest Service – Northeastern Research Station, State & Private Forestry’s Urban & Community Forest Program and the National Urban & Community Forestry Advisory Council. STRATUM was developed and funded by the U.S. Forest Service – Pacific Southwest Research Station, Center for Urban Forest Research and the State & Private Forestry’s Urban & Community Forestry Program.

The UFORE and STRATUM software is in the public domain and available at no cost to all interested individuals and organizations through http://www.itreetools.org/
For more information about community forestry, go to http://www.fs.fed.us/ucf/

Members of the Trees for Wilmington coalition:
9th Ward Civic Association
11th Street Bridge Civic Association
City of Wilmington
Delaware Center for Horticulture – Staff members and volunteer Tree Stewards
Delaware Forest Service – Urban & Community Forestry Program
Kerns Brothers Tree Service
New Castle Conservation District
University of Delaware, Institute for Public Administration -- Water Resources Agency
Wilmington Beautification Commission
Winterthur Museum and Country Estate

Unless otherwise noted, all photos are courtesy DCH archives.