 Structural stability and vitality are not reliable. Citizen Foresters is a force of specially trained volunteers that have made a commitment to utilize their training in the advancement of community or urban forestry. Citizen Foresters take classes from degree professionals. It's a six month commitment of training. They train one day each month for a full day through 36 hours of classroom and training. Their training includes hands-on planting and pruning, tree identification, the benefits of trees, measuring and inventories, tree farm production and hazard tree awareness. They often do projects that require that specialized training and their opportunities can include training, pruning of young trees on public land, verifying measurements of champion trees that have been nominated, tree inventories in parks and along streets. They can also assist with our tree farm production and oversee other volunteers and they can also give presentations. Citizen Foresters are a valuable resource to our city. Through their contributions of urban forestry, we're able to do a lot more than we could with staff alone.