Tree_Survey_Project

Tree Survey Project My service learning project began at the University City Green Office located at 4013 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Both the University City Green Office and The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society organized the project. The project area spanned throughout streets in University City. The University City Green Office and the PHS mission is to educate and inspire people of all ages to become successful and environmentally responsible gardeners by advancing the art and science of horticulture. The goal of my service learning project is to identify how many trees certain properties have, where they are, what species they are, how big they are, the condition of the tree and to determine if the trees need maintenance or immediate attention. The inventory also helps pin down an action plan and provides figures for a budget for continuing care. These facts are then needed to search for funding sources for new trees. The first 2 visits to the City Green Office were training sessions. These sessions helped explain how to inventory the trees properly and why it is important for us to conduct the inventory. The inventory entailed many small aspects that needed to be found. The group would receive a trees, project, city, inventory, university, office, needed, group, green, area, warming, tree, street, species, learning, global, found, condition, time, think, small, should, sessions, service, reduce, possible, need, map, made, location, located, learned, i’ll, inventories, important