Joanne Garton

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Joanne Garton

Community Forester

VT Forests, Parks & Recreation
1 National Life Drive, Davis 2
Montpelier, VT 05620
United States

joanne.garton@vermont.gov

802-249-4217

Contact Joanne if you have questions about:

  • Municipal tree inventories
  • Urban tree data
  • Rapid roadside ash tree inventories and community preparedness for emerald ash borer
  • Black ash trees in Vermont
  • Shade tree preservation plans and municipal tree policy
  • Tree warden support
  • Vermont Women & Our Woods
  • Community science projects

Joanne joined the UCF team in the spring of 2017 as the project coordinator for the rural roads portion of the burgeoning Resilient Right-of-Ways project, a state-led initiative focused on assisting municipalities with smart and forward-thinking vegetation management along their roads. Now serving all of the technical needs of communities working with trees in public ways and places, Joanne continues the robust data collection, writing, outreach, and information sharing that the UCF program delivers. Joanne holds a B.Scs. in geology and architecture from McGill University and is a 2015 graduate of the Field Naturalist and Ecological Planning M.Sc. program at the University of Vermont. She is an active fiddler, performing and teaching at dances and festivals throughout New England. When home, Joanne enjoys the quaint life of downtown Montpelier and swimming in local ponds and pools.