Tree Planning and Planting Campaigns: A Guide for Reforesting Cities and Towns
This guide covers compelling arguments for increasing or retaining urban trees. Given that only about 20% of urban and suburban…
Nature’s Impact on Human Health Action Guide
The Nature’s Impact on Human Health Guide is a resource primarily intended for practitioners and community leaders seeking to evaluate…
Rhode Island Tree Equity Funding, Financing and Policy Guide
This guide provides information on making the case for trees, nationally utilized urban forestry funding and policy mechanisms, as well…
Forests Steward Field Guide
This Field Guide is a quick reference for Forest Steward volunteers on how to get started and proceed with community-based…
Forest Connectivity in the Developing Landscape
This guide builds on other works on this topic by incorporating modern tools of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis, habitat…
Urban tree monitoring: A resource guide
The guidelines proposed in Urban Tree Monitoring: A Resource Guide were developed and refined over many years to address the need…
Urban Tree Monitoring: A Field Guide
This report provides detailed protocols for urban tree monitoring data collection. The intent of this Field Guide is to serve…
Care of Forested Natural Areas in American Cities
Urban forested natural areas — nearly 84 percent of urban parkland — play a vital role in improving the quality…
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…
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…
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…
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…