The 2024 Sustainable Urban Forest Strategy has been adopted by Council. You can read the full strategy here.
Kelowna’s urban forest is the total collection of trees and their growing environments found within the City’s boundary, whether on public or private property. We all play a role in ensuring a healthy urban forest, and the draft Sustainable Urban Forest Strategy was developed based on previous engagement, research, modelling, and analysis.
Our urban forest is an essential part of climate resilience, as well as the community’s character, livability, and biodiversity. Consequently, the City is engaging on the Sustainable Urban Forest Strategy together with the new draft Climate Resilient Kelowna Strategy.
Interested in learning what we heard? You can read the Engagement Summary from Phase 2 here.
The urban forest is all trees, forests, plants, soils, and ecosystem components located within the City’s boundary. It encompasses all trees, whether on public or private property and whether planted or naturally occurring.
The urban forest is an essential part of Kelowna’s character, livability, biodiversity, and the community’s climate resilience. Caring for the urban forest is a shared responsibility of the City and all residents, businesses, institutions, and other land stewards.
The City of Kelowna is updating the Sustainable Urban Forest Strategy, developed in 2011. The updated Strategy will address new and emerging challenges for the urban forest, including the following drivers of change:
The Sustainable Urban Forest Strategy will provide:
- A 10-year implementation plan and monitoring framework guiding Kelowna's urban forest management
- Baseline information on the current state of Kelowna’s urban forest
- A renewed vision for the urban forest that reflects what we heard through the first phase of engagement and understand from Imagine Kelowna
- Updated goals, recommendations, and targets
Learn more about the strategy by flipping through the images below!
Survey
Our urban forest is an essential part of climate resilience. The City has also just released a new Climate Resilient Kelowna Strategy and are engaging on the two strategies as they are inter-related. Take the survey to provide your input on the strategies here.
