Distinguished Service Award:
Janet Larson
for Significantly contributing to urban and community forestry through
seemingly tireless hours spreading stewardship far and wide.
Outstanding Arbor Day Celebration Award:
Festival of Trees
Steve Sylvester, S&S Tree; Dave Sundmark, City of Saint
Paul
for organizing the Festival of Trees, a community celebration which best
commemorates and furthers the Arbor Day ideal
Outstanding Community Forestry
Maintenance Award:
City of Crystal,
Edgewood Gardens tree preservation
for preserving trees during the Edgewood Gardens redevelopment project,
through planning, arboricultural practices and a cooperative spirit
between City departments and contractors.
Stewardship Award:
Michael Max, EnvironMentor
Services
Todd Carroll, Mn/DOT, Landscape Partnership Program Coordinator
for allowing or development and launching
of
MN/DOT's comprehensive new Plant Selector website. |
Outstanding Volunteer Project Award:
City of Saint Louis Park, 2004
Arbor Day Partnership
for reforesting the Southwest Regional trail and Midtown Greenway with
hundreds of volunteers planting over one hundred trees in
Saint Louis Park.
Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award:
Tim Wallace
for many volunteer hours and vigilance ensuring the success of MN/DOT
partnership and city plantings in the Wayzata area.
Innovation Award:
Jay Maier and Sharon Tuntland, Citizen
Forester Program
for creating and initiating the Rochester Citizen Forester program that is
a blueprint for other communities that wish to maximize their community
forestry funds and resources.
Outstanding Partnership Award:
The Rotary International, Area 8,
District 5950 and
City of Buffalo Minnesota
Buffalo Lake, Minnesota "Trees After the Tornado" Project
for initiating, planning, fundraising, expert seeking, and organizing a
replanting project in tornado torn Buffalo Lake. |
