Contact Tree Protection Officials

 

Suggestions for Talking About Municipal Trees

If you see trees in your neighborhood cut down, you may become angry. While that feeling is normal, acting without thinking is not effective. To be effective at saving trees you must be persistent, but also courteous to your representatives and county or city staff.

Most officials want to be helpful, so ask them how you can follow up with the situation you are presenting. Follow up is essential! If the person you are speaking with is not helpful, ask for someone else. Often you will need to call back numerous times to get in touch with the appropriate person. Just remember that whole ordinances have been created to protect trees and there is always an answer to your question. As you and others take notice, so will our public officials and employees.

Use the list below to locate arborists and political contacts, if you live within an unincorporated portion of your county:

 

County	CountyArborist Contact	Contact Number
Clayton	N/A	N/A
Cobb	Cecil Atchley	770.528.2124
Cherokee	Christine White	770.720.3076
Cowetta	N/A	770.254.2601
DeKalb	India Shahid	404.371.2685
Fulton	N/A	N/A
Gwinnett	Bill Williams David Beasley Nancy Lovingood	678.518.6146 678.518.6072 678.518.6214
Henry	None	None
Rockdale	Jeff Tyler	770.785.6957

 

Use the list below to locate arborist and political contacts , if you live within an incorporated city within the county:

City	City Arborist Contact	Political Representative
Alpharetta	Ray Probart	678.297.6200
Atlanta	Publicly Owned Trees Privately Owned Trees	404.330.6836 404.330.6030
Chamblee	Pond & Company	770.986.5024
Clarkston	Bill Adams	404.296.6489
College Park	Oscar Hudson	404.669.3762
Conyers	None	None
Decatur	Hugh Saxon	404.370.4104
Duluth	Cliff Cross	770.476.1790
East Point	N/A	N/A
Fayetteville	N/A	N/A
Lithonia	Karen Smith	770.482.8136
Marietta	Rusty Roth	770.794.5670
Newnan	Michael Furbush	770.253.2682
Norcross	Howard Cones	770.448.4935
Pine Lake	Phil Haland	404.292.4250
Roswell	Sandra DeWitt	770.594.6178
Smyrna	Whittington & Associates	770.943.0257
Snellville	Neily Wilson	770.985.3513
Stone Mountain	N/A	N/A

 

Use the list below to locate helpful contacts for information about trees within Metro Atlanta:

Organization	Name	Phone Number
Georgia Forestry Commission	Susan Reisch	404.298.3935
Georgia Power Arborist	Scott Souder	404.572.7765

 

County Extension Service Phone Numbers:

Clayton	770.473.5450
Cobb	770.528.4070
Cherokee	770.479.0418
Cowetta	770.254.3785
DeKalb	404.298.4080
Fulton	770.551.7670
Gwinnett	678.377.4010
Henry	770.954.2060
Rockdale	770.785.5952