ORIGIN OF RESOLUTION: Urban and Community Forestry Committee

ISSUE OF CONCERN: Retiring out-of-date resolutions.

BACKGROUND:

The NASF Urban and Community Forestry Committee has reviewed the following resolutions and found them to be out-of-date or no longer relevant.

• 1996 Resolution 1996-2 (Relating to 2002 Olympic Games and a National Initiative for Urban and Community Forestry).
• 1997 Resolution 1997-5 (Relating to Inventory and Assessment of Urban and Community Forests Throughout the United States).
• 2000 Resolution 2000-10 (Relating to Backyard Woods Initiative).
• 2004 Resolution 2004-4 (Relating to Inventory and Assessment of the Nation's Urban Forest Resource).

The Urban and Community Forestry Committee recommends to the membership that these resolutions be retired.

RESOLUTION:

THEREFORE BE ITRESOLVED that National Association of State Foresters agrees to retire the resolutions as identified above.

NASF ACTION:
(x) Approved

DATE OF ACTION:
September 23, 2009