The City of Oxford has been awarded a 2008 Urban and Community Forestry Grant from the Georgia Forestry Commission. The Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC), in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and the Georgia Urban Forest Council, administers the Urban and Community Forestry (U&CF) Grant Program. The program is designed to encourage communities to create and support long-term and sustained urban and community forestry programs throughout Georgia.
The City of Oxford’s Parks, Trees and Recreation Board, with support from Mayor Jerry Roseberry and City Council liaison Emma Lou Patterson, earned a program grant for a Community Tree Care Education Program. The $17,000 project will provide three tree board development sessions, three community-wide, public, tree care workshops, coordination of a regional community forestry roundtable, and will assist the community in developing a tree planting program for Oxford homeowners in order to maintain Oxford’s impressive tree canopy.
The City of Oxford has been a Tree City USA since 1998. Anyone interested in volunteering for Oxford’s Parks, Trees and Recreation Board is asked to contact Dr. Eve Mullen, Chair, at emullen@emory.edu or telephone 770-784-8428.