Community Forestry

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The purpose of the Community Forestry Program is to educate citizens and decision-makers about the economic, environmental, psychological, and aesthetic benefits of trees and to assist local governments, citizen groups and volunteers in the planting and sustaining healthy trees and vegetation wherever people live and work in the State of Kansas. The program is administered locally by city government and is supported and sponsored statewide by the Kansas Forest Service.

"To encourage, educate, and enable sound management of Kansas’s community forest and associated natural areas.”

The program assists Kansas communities and encourage citizen involvement in protecting, expanding, and improving our valuable community forests.  State level administration of the Community Forestry Program is funded by federal appropriations through the USDA Forest Service.

Additionally, the newsletter Out On a Limb is provided to educate readers about community forestry issues and inform them of exciting and upcoming events.  The Arbor Day National Poster Contest is also administered by Community Forestry personnel.

Personnel responsible for the program include a Community Forestry Coordinator and District and Community Foresters.