Learn how Cupertino, California, incorporated innovative and practical applications of GIS, QR code and smartphone technologies to identify and protect street trees while also educating and engaging the community. Inventorying Cupertino’s nearly 14,000 trees was both a beginning and catalyst to improvement of their urban forest. 

Learning Objectives:

1.     Integrate GPS and new smart phone technology into your street tree program to better manage tree inventory.

2.     Modernize the way that you communicate with the community about street trees.

3.     Control the amount of harmful pruning or removal of street trees by property owners.

 

SPEAKERS:

Timm D. Borden, PE
Director of Public Works,  City of Cupertino,  Cupertino,  CA

Jonathan Peter Ferrante
PW Trees and ROW Supervisor,  City of Cupertino,  Cupertino,  CA

Roger S. Lee
Assistant Director of Public Works,  City of Cupertino,  Cupertino,  CA

Contributor/Source

Timm D. Borden, PE

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