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Extension: Urban Forestry

Urban foresters attend to trees within the City of Knoxville.

The importance of trees, vegetation, and landscaping in urban areas cannot be understated. They help to cool cities, improve air quality and water quality, and help create desirable, pedestrian-friendly spaces. Our Urban Forestry Extension provides valuable, expert information on tree and urban landscape care and maintenance for private citizens, municipalities, and industry.

Contact

Sharon Jean-Philippe
Professor
865-974-2946
jeanphil@utk.edu

Resources

Webinar Series

The Tennessee Urban Forestry Council and UT Residential and Community Forestry Workgroup have joined forces to bring you free educational webinars to help you manage urban forests. For participants interested in earning International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) CEUs, there is now a $10 fee associated with the webinars. The webinars have also been approved for Society of American Foresters (SAF) CFE. The webinars are limited to 1,000 participants.

Thursday, January 16, 2025, 11am Central / 12pm Eastern

Topic: A New Way to Look at Arborists

Speaker:
Skip Kincaid
Executive Director
Southern Chapter
International Society of Arboriculture

Continuing Education:

  • ISA CEU
  • SAF CFE

Registration link will be posted here.

Webinar replays:

Logo on left says "Tennessee Urban Forestry Council" with website and a graphic showing two trees and a building. The logo on the right has a T in an orange box with the words, "School of Natural Resources."
Man smiles in front of tan background.

Residential and Community Forestry Resources

Meet the Residential and Community Forestry Workgroup

Residential and Community Forestry News

Tree News You Can Use

  • Hand points to multiple fruits growing among leaves of Paw Paw tree.
  • Persimmon fruit grow on American Persimmon tree.
  • A pecan nut grows on a pecan tree.

Tree News You Can Use: Fall Harvest of Your Urban Food Forest

  • Green watering bags are wrapped around bottom of trees planted near sidewalk.
  • Black watering bag wraps around bottom of tree planted in a yard.

Tree News You Can Use: Your Tree May Be Thirsty!

Tree stands near road and powerlines.

Tree News You Can Use: Whose Tree Is This?

  • Green callus tissue grows on a tree.
  • A tree grows in a wooded area with mushroom on trunk.
  • Hand points to ground around tree.
  • Tree growing next to shrub near driveway and sidewalk.

Tree News You Can Use: Evaluating Tree Health, Structure, and Condition

Tree News You Can Use: Pruning Techniques: Combining Art and Science

  • Trees grow close to aboveground power line.
  • Hole crews dug within a utility right-of-way.

Tree News You Can Use: Where Not to Plant a Tree!

Eastern Red Cedar trees stand next to a road.
Eastern Red Cedar
Close up of blue cones on Eastern Red Cedar tree.
Eastern Red Cedar cones
Japanese Katsura tree grows outside Morgan Hall on the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture campus.
Japanese Katsura
Close up of Japanese Katsura tree leaf.
Japanese Katsura leaves

Tree News You Can Use: Bucking Tree Selection Trends

  • Tree dropping leaves ahead of cooler, fall weather.
  • Plant with disease issue grows outside student housing.
  • Tree with little foliage grows outside building.

Tree News You Can Use: Leaves Drop… It’s What Trees Do!

Tree News You Can Use: Drought Stress in Landscape Trees

Tree News You Can Use: Utility Vegetation Management

  • Power poles and lines stand near tall tree.
  • Power pole stands near tree.

Tree News You Can Use: Envisioning Your Mosaic Palette for Your Garden

  • A tree grows in a circle of flowers and other plants.
  • Several flowers grow next to a large bush in a flowerbed.
  • Flowers and plants grow from three light blue ceramic pots in different sizes.
  • Two benches hold flowerbeds in the middle instead of seats, and a side table also holds a flowerbed in its middle.

Tree News You Can Use: Did the December Freeze Kill My Tree?

Brown needles on tree

Tree News You Can Use: Emerging and Recurring Pest

  • Crape Myrtle Bark Scale on crape myrtle tree
  • Crape Myrtle Bark Scale on twig

Tree News You Can Use: Reducing Stressors in the Landscape

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  • Knoxville, TN 37996-4563
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Important Phone Numbers:

Academic Inquiries:
865-974-7987

Forestry & Wildlife Extension:
865-974-7346

General Inquiries:
865-974-7126

Bookkeeping/Invoicing:
865-974-7986

School Director:
865-974-2706

Fax: 865-974-4714

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