054 – Trees: Your Ultimate Win-Win- Susan Russell

Trees aren’t just for beauty any more.They provide your community with measurable health, financial, and environmental values.Susan is a ISA Certified Arborist that is on a mission to balance the challenges facing your community's tree canopies. Through her work with the Georgia Forestry Commission Urban Forests program Susan assists communities face the challenges in protecting, maintaining and increasing community tree canopies.In her work she assists local cities with managing their urban forests, public education, tree ordinances, tree protection, and commercial development planning.She also develops initiatives to encourage tree planting on private land and training tree management best practices.Susan also assists cities in identifying potential problem trees that might hamper first responders during weather events. As an instructor she teaches arborist certification prep classes to Georgia Electric Membership Corporation linemen and ROW workers.