Rick Harper wins Tree Canada Public Education Award
The Tree Canada Public Education Award recognizes excellence in furthering the understanding of urban forestry issues and/or encouraging best practices in the urban forestry sector. This award is open to individuals, the media or organizations.
Congratulations to our 2020 Public Education Award winners!
Richard W. Harper, PhD, is an Extension Associate Professor of Urban & Community Forestry at the University of Massachusetts. Rick is a Past-President of the International Society of Arboriculture – New England Chapter, and is an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist.
Based on formal research interview data with urban forestry stakeholders (Harper et al. 2017), Rick launched the Urban Forestry Today monthly noonhour webcast series in 2014, to provide free, openly-accessible CEU opportunities to arborists/urban foresters across Canada, the U.S., and globally, regarding research-based best practices.
Through his supervision and instruction of urban forestry/arboriculture graduate and undergraduate students, he is also actively training arborists and arboriculture researchers for the next generation. Rick and his students continue to investigate key questions aimed at advancing and building the base of knowledge in urban forestry in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada.
Since 1992 Tree Canada has provided leadership/cooperation in over 1100 Canadian municipalities and 600 school yards that has resulted in the planting of over 82 million trees across the nation. They have hosted 13 national urban forestry conferences reaching thousands of individuals about the good news of planting trees in communities across Canada and around the world.
About Tree Canada
Since 1992 Tree Canada has provided leadership/cooperation in over 1100 Canadian municipalities and 600 school yards that has resulted in the planting of over 82 million trees across the nation. They have hosted 13 national urban forestry conferences reaching thousands of individuals about the good news of planting trees in communities across Canada and around the world.