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The committee has worked on other grants that benefit the City of Montgomery including:
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About Us
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.
In 2004, the City of Montgomery hired an Urban Forester, Russell Stringer who is assigned to the Planning Controls Department and acts as an advisor to Montgomery Trees. 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. In 2010, Montgomery Trees developed a three year strategic plan, following the yearly retreat. The Board of Directors voted to change the name of the organization to Montgomery Trees in 2011. Take Root Montgomery was approved as the primary project to raise funds and purchase trees to assist the city implement the Downtown Street Tree Plan. A new group was formed to work solely on the Cypress Pond Park Project, now known as the Cypress Nature Park. The group, the Montgomery Nature Conservancy, has made an application to become a separate non-profit organization and is working with the City of Montgomery, the US Army Corp of Engineers and others to protect, restore and sustainably develop the Cypress Nature Park. The Corp of Engineers and the City of Montgomery have signed an agreement to study the feasiblity of restoring the system (creek, inlet and wetlands) to a more natural state. To see more of what the Montgomery Tree Committee is doing, check out the Projects page. Benefits of Trees:
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