San Diego Regional Urban Forests Council

Partners in Urban Forestry 
 
 
Our partners are who make up the San Diego Regional Urban Forests Council.  We are proud to have dedicated individuals representing a variety of cities and private companies throughout San Diego County.  Please see below for more information on our partners. 
 
If you would like your information to be added to this page please e-mail vince.mikulanis@davey.com
 
SDRUFC Executive Committee
 
The Executive Committee of the San Diego Regional Urban Forests Council provides insight and direction for the council as a whole.  The board consists of nonelected members, and the general membership is invited to join the committee at any time.  The board typically meets at 10:00am before our regularly scheduled meetings and hold conference calls as necessary between meetings.  To see the list of committee members, click here.
SDRUFC Member Representatives
 
We have many representatives to the council from multiple fields of forestry in San diego county.  Our representation is from City Urban Foresters, private sector employees, non profit groups, and private consultants. To see who are representatives to the SDRUFC click here.
California Center for Sustainable Energy - Urban Forestry ATAC
SDRUFC Executive Committee member Robin Rivet has done an incredible amount of work setting up a Urban Forestry Advice and Technical Assistance Center at the California Center for Sustainable Energy.   This center serves as a central source of information about the urban forest in our region, including an interactive map of our urban forest.  Visit ATAC's webpage for more information. 
City of San Diego Street Tree Division
 
The Urban Forestry Section oversees the planting and maintenance of trees and other vegetation along streets, sidewalks, and other City rights-of-way. The program works closely with nonprofit organizations to increase the number of trees in the City and help improve the quality of life. Current tree inventory includes over 30,000 palms and 170,000 various shade trees.
An urban forest is simply trees and vegetation in and around a town or city environment. In San Diego, the only part of the forest managed by public agencies is that which grows on public land such as along streets and highways, in parks, and around public buildings. Like a natural forest, an urban forest is an entire ecosystem which includes trees on both public and private property. However, unlike a natural forest, an urban forest usually needs help from people to survive.
The City of San Diego's Street Tree Selection Guide provides information about trees recommended for use in the public right-of-way. The guide encourages selections that are compatible with the planting location, thus preventing damage to public improvements, while ensuring species diversity. 
 
For further information, link to their website.
   
Davey Resource Group
 
 
Since Davey was founded in 1880 as North America’s first tree care company, The Davey Tree Expert Company has held to a philosophy of excellent service and integrity. Davey, an employee-owned company, is committed to providing our clients with high-quality, dependable services and advanced technical expertise. 
Davey Resource Group (DRG) is the consulting division of The Davey Tree Expert Company.  A DRG regional office is located in Atascadero, California with field offices throughout California including San Diego. In addition we have field offices in Washington, Texas, North Carolina, New York, and Florida. DRG’s mission is to offer technical consulting to natural resource managers, including public and private organizations and companies, utility companies, municipal organizations, and other government jurisdictions. DRG provides urban, traditional and utility forestry solutions, natural resources and environmental planning, research and development, and consulting services. Our clients include governmental agencies, cities, military bases, universities, park districts, utility companies, golf courses, land developers, environmental organizations and commercial properties.
DRG’s service areas include the following broad categories: Tree and Facility Inventories, Tree Preservation and Management Plans, Utility Forestry Consulting, Urban Forestry Services (Inventory, Management Software, Master Plans, etc), Golf Course Inventory and Tree Master Plans (including 3-D visual mapping), Urban Tree Canopy Assessments utilizing areial or satellite imagey, and a full service GIS shop.  We have inventoried more trees than any other company in the nation, and our fully customizable inventory management system Treekeeper 7.7 is the most widely used system in the nation.
For further information please link to www.daveyresourcegroup.com
 
Urban Corps of San Diego
 
Urban Corps of San Diego was founded in 1989 through a partnership of local elected officials and community leaders. Starting with a grant of $130,000 and 20 youth, Urban Corps began providing job training and educational opportunities for young men and women 18 to 25 years old from disadvantaged inner-city communities – job opportunities that would also conserve our natural resources.  Today Urban Corps provides job training and educational opportunities to more than 400 young people annually-young people committed to changing thier lives, needing a second chance, or just an opportunity.

Focusing on the life-changing impact of a good education, strong work ethic and service to one’s community, Urban Corps now contracts with nearly 300 sponsors—local government, non-profit organizations, businesses and corporations. These contracts make possible temporary employment and job training for Corps embers while supplying numerous services to our sponsors. Corps embers are identified by the Urban Corps’ trademark green uniform as they participate in paid work experience and community projects. Projects include Graffiti Abatement, Recycling, Environmental Projects and Urban Forestry. Crews of Corpsmembers receive specialized training in tree planting, tree care, pruning and watering. While planting trees to improve urban, low-income and neighborhoods, Corpsmembers are educated on the aesthetics, benefits and importance of trees to the environment.   
 
For further information, link to http://www.urbancorpssd.org/urban.html
 
 
 
West Coast Arborists
 
 WCA is a complete urban forestry maintenance and management firm that specializes in comprehensive, continuous, consistent, and safe tree care. Services include tree pruning, raising, removal, planting, watering, emergency, and custom information management. Our Company has been in business in California since 1972. In 1978, WCA incorporated under the laws of the State of California. We operate under California State Contractor License #366764 in both class C61 and C27 with an A+ rating. Our Dunn and Bradstreet rating is 1A2. WCA is fully insured and can provide certificates of insurance for up to $10,000,000. We can also provide bid, labor and material bonds for all contracts. We are one of the largest tree care companies in California; our corporate headquarters are in Anaheim, with district offices in Fresno, Stockton, Buena Park, Riverside, and Irvine.

We are a professional organization that employs only the highest standard of tree care professionals, including over 35 ISA Certified Arborists and over 100 ISA Certified Treeworkers. Our modern fleet consists of over 500 custom-designed vehicles and associated equipment. We have a full service, in house, fleet maintenance department. WCA has developed a State-of-the-Art on-line urban forest management software program called ArborAccess On-Line that will be offered to each customer. In addition to providing quality tree maintenance services in the field, WCA also provides a complete tree site inventory and a Master Street Tree Plan. 
 
For further information, link to  http://www.wcainc.com/

If you would like your organization added to this list please email vince.mikulanis@davey.com with the information and logo.