Growing Tree Canopy through Environmental Justice Project
The 3-year Growing Tree Canopy through Environmental Justice project focused on delivering in-depth community engagement with tree canopy in the…
Low Income Urban Forestry Program in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is located in the Sonoran Desert, 117 km north of the US-Mexico border. The borderland region is an area…
Prioritization and Planning to Improve Urban Tree Health in the Chicago Region
The Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI) has collected one of the largest data sets on urban forestry in the United…
Planning for Climate Change Through Riparian Restoration in Houston, Texas
The City of Houston faces a unique set of natural and developmental resiliency challenges that make it especially vulnerable to…
Monitoring Forest Restoration Activities in NYC Parks
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks) owns 30,000 acres of property in New York City,…
Leveraging a Non-Profit-Public Partnership to Meet the Needs of Austin’s Urban Forest
The urban forest and natural areas of Lady Bird Lake receive over 4 million visitors each year and represent the…
Building Multi-Member Partnerships for Greener Communities: The Chicago Experience
The Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI) is a partnership of more than 200 organizations across the seven county Chicago metro…
Anchor Institutions and their Role in Healthy Communities
The concept of anchor institutions has been around for over a decade, but the idea of what it truly means…
Organization and Support of Long-Term Collaborative Relationships Between Private Citizens, Government Institutions and Universities
Successful conservation of forested natural areas within a matrix of urban land uses requires an ongoing collaborative relationship between private…
Urban Wood Network
The Urban Wood Network is made up of individuals and entities from Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin. These groups have…
Documentation Required for FEMA Reimbursement for Damage to Trees
To receive reimbursement, trees must be “qualified” as a municipal asset– that is, a “facility” that delivers tangible services to…
Multi-Hazard Planning in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Lays out a comprehensive framework that addresses risk from wildfire and other hazards at multiple scales, and identifies how better planning…
NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide
While more and more organizations – domestic and international, public and private – are promoting community resilience to lower disaster tolls, transforming…
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…
Everything’s Changing: Can Your Urban Forest Thrive?
Yes! If you work at it. This interview with Karen Zumach, Director of Community Forestry at the Tree Trust, St.…
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…
Urban Tree Pit Design Factors for Stormwater Management Performance
Street trees in the urban environment provide important ecosystem services including stormwater management, reducing pollutant discharges and flooding by lessening surface runoff. Does…
Making Your Community Forest-Friendly: A 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…
A Formula for Smarter Growth: Form Based Codes
Whether your community is attempting to revitalize a neglected downtown, pursuing Complete Streets, or trying to foster better transit-oriented development,…
The Clark-Matheny Model for Assessing Urban Forestry Programs
The model, now in wide use, applies general principles of sustainability to urban trees and forests. The central tenet of the model…
Serving All Needs: Whole Measures in Urban Conservation
Traditionally, conservation practitioners measure success in dollars, acres and biological diversity, and do not often consider factors related to community well-being.…
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