Urban Forestry

Trees surrounding development

The growing importance of urban forestry requires specialized expertise to manage complex urban forest problems. Our staff’s knowledge and skills have been applied to all aspects of urban forestry, including tree assessments, tree maintenance and tree extractions performed by skilled, certified ISA Arborists.

B.A. Blackwell and Associates Ltd. works with municipal councils and staff, local businesses, developers, and individual homeowners to improve the quality of urban forests. Our staff of foresters, biologists, and ISA certified arborists have extensive experience in urban forest management.

We work with individual municipalities, developers, landscape architects, real estate professionals, and construction firms to develop strategies for any urban forested area, ranging from large green spaces and parks to individual tree strategies for streets and boulevards.

Our services include:

  • hazard and danger tree assessment
  • pre-construction tree protection strategies
  • ecological site assessment
  • tree and vegetation species selection and planting
  • tree maintenance plans and prescriptions
  • forest health assessments
  • development of tree replacement plans
  • timber valuations
  • inventory and mapping
  • wildlife habitat surveys
  • nesting bird surveys