Managing Natural Resources: A Guide for Municipal Commissions
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The guide is designed to assist communities with planning and managing green infrastructure, including trees, parks, and open spaces. It focuses on exploring the benefits and ecosystem services provided by green infrastructure, as well as the role of municipal commissions (planning, tree commissions, and environmental advisory committees), ordinances and land use regulations, inventories and management plans, stormwater management, budgeting and contracting, funding sources, and community participation and engagement.Â
The 84-page guide explores many of the opportunities and management challenges of incorporating green infrastructure into communities. It was developed through a partnership of Penn State Extension, the USDA Forest Service, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
- Elected and Municipal Officials and Managers
- Planning Commissioners
- Shade Tree Commissioners
- Environmental Advisory Committees
- Community Planners and Landscape Architects
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