TIMELINE RECOMMENDATIONS

Provide information on sidewalk damage remediation

Street

Manage current condition of street trees throughout Greater Hazelwood

Trees

Increase street trees through continued TreeVitalize applications

Trees

Host Pruning Workshop

Trees Public Trees Public Trees

Public Trees

Private Trees

Private Trees

Host Mulching Party Gladstone Field Planting

Host Tree Appreciation Walk

Increase school and library programming

Host tree adoption event in Hazelwood

Connect with church organizations to plant trees on-site

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City of Pittsburgh, Tree Pittsburgh

City of Pittsburgh, Forestry Division

Neighborhood Volunteers, Hazelwood Initiative

Tree Tenders, Tree Pittsburgh

Neighborhood Volunteers, Tree Pittsburgh

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Tree Pittsburgh

Tree Pittsburgh

Neighborhood Volunteers, Tree Tenders, Tree Pittsburgh

Neighborhood Volunteers, Hazelwood Initiative

HOW ARE WE DOING?

From the Pittsburgh Urban Forest Master Plan, monitoring, analyzing, and revising are keystones toward keeping a dynamic management approach. A recommendation from the City-wide master plan is to prepare and distribute a “State of the Urban Forest” report to the public every 5 to 10 years. A formal plan revision will take place if any of the following changes occur (see figure below).

Tree Pittsburgh will conduct an assessment of the success of Greater Hazelwood’s ReLeaf program after its two-year plan Future plans outside of the two-year window will be led by the ReLeaf Greater Hazelwood steering committee with help from Tree Pittsburgh as funding provides. Reassessment will occur after two years to determine if the organized efforts are successful At that point, a complete evaluation and additional recommendations will be made to continue the ReLeaf Greater Hazelwood “How Are We Doing” section. This evaluation will assess metrics that will outline success and shortcomings

Tree Pittsburgh will include various metrics in an annual report, including but not limited to: number of trees planted survival rates overall tree canopy cover change tree canopy cover changes by land type number of Tree Tenders number of trees pruned number of trees mulched and weeded assessment of annual tree benefits

Additionally, an annual report will be created to evaluate progress and inform the community about program successes To continue the coordination and momentum of the neighborhood-level effort, the steering committee will meet to work through opportunities and challenges as part of the standing Hazelwood Environmental Board meetings.