The Baltimore Wood Project: A Comprehensive Workbook
This workbook captures the full “Baltimore experience” and distills it into lessons applicable to any community attempting to turn wood…
Heat Wave Action Guide for Cities
Heatwaves are deadly and their impacts are on the rise globally due to climate change. In the US alone, some…
FEMA Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide
The most recent description of the rules FEMA applies when it determines whether a state [and through the state] a…
Storm Smart Cities: Integrating Green Infrastructure into Local Hazard Mitigation Plans
This guide provides an overview of local hazard mitigation planning; a guide to establishing a multi-disciplinary planning team; and demonstrates…
Take Care of Trees Now, They’ll Fare Better in Disasters
For trees, like people, what happens when disaster strikes depends, in large part, on pre-existing conditions.
Financing Urban Tree Canopy Programs
This guidebook for local governments in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed outlines financing strategies applicable to most communities nationwide. Includes detailed…
Fire is a problem everywhere!
The National Interagency Fire Center maintains a wildfire database that covers all states, and lists size and costs of suppression…
Tucson Green Streets Action Guide
A directive from the city’s director of transportation lays out why and how green features must be built into municipal…
Green Infrastructure Manual for Desert Communities
This manual provides information for neighborhood residents, municipal professionals, grassroots advocates and others who seek to implement green infrastructure (GI)…
Forest Service Guide to Urban Tree Canopy Assessment
A sound canopy assessment provides the foundation for crafting an urban forest management plan and creating the programs and policies…
Designing Green Infrastructure in Ultra-Urban Environments
The City and County of Denver is making green infrastructure a fundamental part of the city’s long-term stormwater management strategy by…
Guide to Creating Fire Adapted Communities
The Fire Adapted Community program envisions a collaborative, iterative approach where residents, communities, and governments work to identify and implement…
Toledo’s Stormwater Credit Manual
A revised stormwater credit guide for the City of Toledo, OH that lists forested buffers as an eligible management practice…
Best Practices for Urban Residential Tree Planting Programs
Adding trees to private residential properties is critical to accomplishing urban greening goals, such as ambitious tree canopy cover targets.…
Accounting for Trees in Stormwater Management
This paper is intended to help the stormwater engineering community more easily account for trees in runoff and pollutant load calculations…
Worksheet for Review of Municipal Codes and Ordinances
This worksheet was designed to help communities review and revise their development regulations, so that future projects conserve and protect valuable…
GreenPrint Resource Hub
The Greenprint Resource Hub is intended to help planners, policymakers, and the public learn about greenprints and how they can…
Whole Measures for Urban Conservation
A metric for incorporating human impacts into conservation strategies
Green Pattern Book
Using Vacant Land to Create Greener Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Determining the Relative Performance Index for Tree Species in Your Community
Calculating Relative Performance Index
Green Infrastructure: Long-Term Success Depends on Effective Maintenance
Published by EPA in support of the green infrastructure component in funds derived from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.…
Improving Operations and Maintenance of Green Infrastructure
American Rivers and Green for All published this guide to support stormwater managers participating in the multi-year Chesapeake Bay clean-up…
NACTO Publishes Guide to Stormwater and Streets
The Urban Street Stormwater Guide is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between city transportation, public works, and water departments to advance the…
Urban Forestry Best Management Practices for Public Works Managers: Ordinances, Regulations and Public Policies
This guide is intended to introduce communities to the myriad of regulatory tools available to assist in the proactive management…
ISA Best Practices
The International Society of Arboriculture develops and maintains a published collection of best practices for arborists. Multiple topics include planting,…