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Colorado Springs City Forestry Division
MISSION: To manage our urban forest in a healthy, safe, and sustainable state, which maintains our original forest legacy, manages risk, and increases the canopy coverage for shade, stormwater retention and property value.
The Colorado Springs Forestry Division maintains 100,000+ street right-of-way trees and 18,500+ park and median trees in Colorado Springs.
We are also responsible for the trees in 7 regional parks, 8 community parks, 136 neighborhood parks, 5 sports complexes, and 47 open space areas. There are now a combined total of over 14,000 acres of parks, trails and open spaces, 105 miles of urban trails and 160 miles of parks trails.
Come celebrate Arbor Day April 30th, 2010 with City Forestry. Colorado Springs 33rd year as Tree City USA and 100th anniversary of City Forestry. Ceremony to begin 10am at Cutler Hall on the Colorado College Campus.
Get free mulch for landscaping!
"To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees" ~ Thomas Jefferson
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