Research Project

• Your organization’s total sales/revenues/expenditures related to urban and community forestry during 2021.
• Number and type of employees
• Salaries and fringe benefits of employees

The data collected in the confidential survey will help our team of researchers report on California’s Urban and Community Forestry monetary contributions and economic impacts, which are critical to governmental policy and budget decisions at the state and local levels.

The survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Have someone familiar with your organization’s financials complete the survey. We only need one response per organization.

Businesses and organizations working with community trees, i.e., tree care and green industries, municipal tree managers, utility forestry managers, college campus arborists, and nonprofits and foundations should take our survey. 

• • Private Sector – Respond on behalf of a company that grows, plants, maintains, or manages trees in the urban forest. Examples include nurseries, landscape installation/maintenance contractors, tree care companies, utility vegetation management contractors, consulting arborists, companies providing urban forest management services.

• • County, Municipal or other Local Government – Respond on behalf of a division of local government that oversees the management or regulation of urban forests on behalf of citizens. Examples include departments of parks and recreation, public works, planning, sustainability, forestry.

• • State Government – Respond on behalf of a state agency that performs technical, administrative, regulatory, or outreach services for urban and community forestry, as well as agencies that oversee the management of urban forests. Examples include forestry, natural resources, conservation, and cooperative extension.

• • Investor-Owned or Cooperative Utility – Respond on behalf of a company that operates utility infrastructure and manages trees along rights-of-way in urban and community settings. Examples include electric, natural gas, water, telecommunications.

• • Higher Education Institution – Respond on behalf of a college or university that directly employs personnel who plant, maintain, and manage trees on campuses in urban and community settings or is involved in research and/or educating students on U&CF or related fields. Examples include campus arborist, urban forester, horticulturist, grounds manager, professor of U&CF programs.

• • Non-Profit Organization – Respond on behalf of a non-profit whose mission directly relates to urban and community forestry. Examples include tree planting, maintenance, conservation, consultation, outreach, education, advocacy.

All of your responses to this survey are confidential, and no personally identifying information will be recorded, reported, or published anywhere. Information you share will be aggregated with other respondents for analysis and will not be reported in any way that may reveal your identity.