Casey Trees: Promotes Urban Forestry in the Field, the Conference Table and City Hall
Established in 2002, Casey Trees is an urban forestry nonprofit that connects people to trees and inspires communities to come…
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DC’s interactive tree map provides foundation for volunteer action
DC’s Urban Forestry Administration (UFA) is the keeper of Washington DC’s approximately 145,000 street trees and have created this map…
Monitoring & Maintaining Your Urban Forest
Monitor: Your management plan must provide for regular “check-ups.” Unless you periodically review the condition of your urban forest, you can’t know if your programs are working, your trees are growing and healthy, and no risks have emerged that threaten…
Street Tree Inventory
Good Inventory, Good Results An inventory [no more than four years old] will reveal the age, species, size and condition of the trees you’ll be managing. It will also serve as the foundation for your longer-term maintenance plan. Top-Down or…
Funding
Your needs will change, along with your budgets Don’t begin an urban forestry program without thinking carefully about the future. Even a small program represents a long-term investment in assets that require management for decades and more. And your budget…
Build a Stakeholder Coalition
Begin with a coalition of the willing Successful programs weave together the different needs, opportunities, perspectives and preferences of many different stakeholders. Some may be deeply embedded in the community; others may feel apart from it. But your first task…