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Planning & Zoning - City Forester

Edinburg, Texas has a Rio Grande Valley City Forest that is a part of a uniquely sub-tropical, desert edge, river delta, Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, a Valley that supports a thriving citrus and vegetable crop industry, a surviving Sabal Palm forest type, several world birding centers, ‘Winter Texan’ communities as well as ecosystems that exist in Texas, the number one bird-watching state, and within the four counties of the Valley, Hidalgo, Starr, Willacy, and Cameron, which have together recorded almost 500 bird species which is more than all but four states.

City Forest: A dense, widespread growth of trees and other plants covering an area of a city.

Ecosystem:A system whose members benefit from each other's participation via symbiotic relationships (Positive sum relationships), in self-sustaining systems.

Goals:
Create and manage an urban forest in a sub-tropical, desert edge, river delta, Gulf of Mexico area such as ours in the Rio Grande Valley such as an "City Forest Ecosystem" which

• becomes self-perpetuating,
• provides multiple uses such as outdoor opportunities ranging from soccer fields, skate board parks… to nature/wildlife trails and birding/butterfly centers…
• encourages tourism and begins an ongoing process towards generating profits from eco-tourism, fees, tree & wildlife services, etc.
• maintains security for our citizens, and
• provides a beneficial home to’special’ plant and wildlife species compatible with and desirable to the health and happiness of the citizens of Edinburg.

To create and maintain our urban forest Edinburg has in place the Unified Development Code, enacted in July, 2007.

For more information you can visit the Texas Chapter International Society of Arboriculture HERE.

Other Related Links & Documents:
Arbor Day Foundation
Sabal Palms PDF