The committee has worked on other grants that benefit the City of Montgomery including:

• Alabama Power Tree Grants for Neighborhoods
• World Wildlife Fund grant for Cypress Creek
• Nation-wide Research Project on Tree Ordinances
• ISA Training for Certified Arborists

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The Montgomery Tree Committee informally began in 2001 as a citizen advocacy group to start an urban forestry program for Montgomery. The committee wrote an Urban and Community Forest grant for the city which was awarded in 2001 and the Montgomery Comprehensive Urban Forest Plan was completed in 2002. The committee worked on other grants with the city and the Clean City Commission to develop data and ideas to benefit the environment and community, including a study of the feasiblity of a walking trail along Cypress Creek, sponsored by The Kodak Foundation. Of real significance, was the Urban and Community Forest Grant the city received in 2002 for an Urban Ecosystem Analysis of the tree canopy in Montgomery, Autauga, and Elmore counties which documented significant tree canopy loss between 1986 and 2002.

The committee wrote an Urban and Community Forest grant for the city which was awarded in 2001

In 2004, the City of Montgomery hired its first Urban Forester, Russell Stringer who is assigned to the Planning Controls Department and acts as an advisor to the MTC.

In 2005, the Montgomery Tree Committee incorporated as a non-profit membership organization and in 2006 was recognized as a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation by the IRS.