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Testimony Submitted for FY 19 Budget
The SUFC Policy Working Group recently submitted testimony to the House and Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittees urging support and funding for U.S. Forest Service, EPA, and National Park Service programs related to urban forests. The Working Group also submitted testimony to the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee to maintain the Fiscal Year 2018 funding levels for four line items under the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Plant Health program.

Thank Congress for Increased Funding to U&CF
The FY 18 budget had good news for urban forestry. Funding for the U&CF and other forestry programs was increased in some instances, and otherwise kept level. It’s not too late to head to social media to share your appreciation, especially to members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, with the FY 19 process already underway. [The House members from New York who served on that committee are José SerranoNita Lowey, and Grace Meng.]

The SUFC is an assembly of national organizations working to advance a unified urban forest agenda for our nation’s communities.

The SUFC is composed of city planners, educators, landscape architects, non-profit leaders, scientists, arborists, foresters, nurserymen and women, and many other professionals who care for, monitor and advocate for trees and our urban forests as a whole.