The department's forestry division started to marshal its resources days before the storm, directing the private contractors it uses in emergencies to bring in scores of additional tree crews.
The state's forestry division cleared fallen trees off roads.
Formal education in forestry began about 1825 when private forestry schools were established.
Eric Holmlund, an assistant professor in the forestry division, says the fact that a recreation program could be part of a forestry department indicates a change in the way forests are managed, and in what forestry is.
The small forestry division of the city's parks department consists of 40 employees with the title of forester, who report to a dozen forestry supervisors, as well as a forestry manager in each borough.
The parks department's forestry division often sends trained arborists only after problems have been noted by the untrained employees.
The mood of our discussion was optimistic with plenty of enthusiasm about the way forward for public and private forestry.
It really is a cheat's charter," warned Michael Obersteiner of the forestry division of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), a thinktank based in Laxenburg, Austria, back in 2000.
Fifteen years ago we started a forestry division [at GMO] because I had fallen in love with land and trees and because I realised it was a mispriced asset class.
"I'm afraid it's going to be a long season," said J. P. Greene, aviation manager with the forestry division in Tallahassee.
A total of 1,230 fires have scorched 83,150 acres since the beginning of the fire season on Jan . 1 according to the forestry division.
