2022 Tree Inventory (DNR GRANT)

The City of Omro is requesting proposals for providing the city a tree inventory for all city park and terrace trees with Department of Natural Resources grant required attribute specifications (https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/sites/default/files/topic/UrbanForests/treeInventoryAttributes.pdf). 

The sealed bid proposals will be accepted until June 30, 2022 at 4:30 PM, for a bid opening scheduled for July 1, 2022 at 12:00 pm at Omro City Hall Conference Room.  Tree Inventory completion is required by October 1, 2022.

Email Sealed bids to:
bvanclake@omro-wi.com  
Barbara J. Van Clake
City Clerk/Deputy Treasurer
205 S. Webster Avenue
Omro, WI 54963
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What is a Tree Inventory

DNR Required Inventory Attributes
A tree inventory is a survey of individual trees within a given area. It is a necessary process and product to understand the make-up of an urban forest and make informed decisions about tree care. Thus, it is critical to the long-term success of urban forest management.
Tree inventories are used for many purposes, particularly to schedule tree maintenance, identify tree health issues or risks from pests and pathogens, develop urban forest policies, communicate tree benefits and identify tree planting locations. However, there is no shortage of uses for a tree inventory; your imagination is the limit.
To see a compilation of many inventories across Wisconsin, visit the Wisconsin Community Tree Map. 
Since 2010, Urban Forestry grant recipients which pursue tree inventories with grant funds have been required to supply the Department of Natural Resources with that inventory data.

To enable the Department to better organize and analyze this urban forestry data across the state, we request that the inventoried data include minimum information that can be incorporated into datasets and mapping applications, such as the Wisconsin Community Tree Map.

​In addition to these required attributes, communities should pursue the data that they need to best manage their trees with their available resources. The required data is listed below. The inventory should track individual trees and be sent as raw datasets of those individual trees rather than summaries of, for instance, total trees by species.​
DNR Required Minimum Tree Attributes
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Tree Inventory Specifications
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