Belfast Garden Club Program: Managing Belfast’s Legacy Trees

Managing Belfast’s Legacy Trees with : Jan Ames Santerre, Project Canopy Director

This program will take place in the Abbott Room and on Zoom. Check back soon to register for the Zoom link or visit: https://belfastgardenclub.org/learn/programs/

Now’s the time to learn about protecting and sustaining the region’s legacy trees. Forestry science and practice, state policy, a healthy local economy, and community activism have set the stage to enable Belfast to manage its urban canopy as a natural resource, instead of giving human-built infrastructure a higher priority.

Jan Ames Santerre is the project canopy director for the Maine Forest Service, a federally funded program aimed at protecting and improving urban canopies. A native of Dover-Foxcroft, with a BS in Forest Biology from the University of Vermont, Jan helps cities and towns all over Maine with grants for tree planting, technical assistance for tree management, and training in a full range of topics related to tree management and forestry in general for municipal staff, commissions, and volunteers.

Jan also manages the state Big Tree registry, the Tree City USA program in Maine, the Community Forest and Open Space land-acquisition program, and several other DACF initiatives related to urban and community forest health.