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.…
Missions and Strategies of Five Tree Planting Programs in the US
Tree canopy in most communities grows on private land. Both public and non-profit organizations have tried multiple strategies to promoting…
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
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…
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…
DC Green Build Out Model
The Green Build-out Model is a planning tool that quantifies the cumulative stormwater management benefits of trees and green roofs…
Sustainability Planning Creates “Space” for Multi-Agency Involvement
To create Washington DC’s first sustainability plan, the Mayor’s Office engaged the departments of planning, energy and environment, and representatives from…
ISA Qualifies and Certifies Arborists
For decades, the International Society of Arboriculture has served as the primary education, certification and continuing education resource for tree…
Calculating the Relative Performance Index
Conduct a basic inventory of public trees, noting typical characteristics of each tree – species, height, diameter, age and condition.…
EPA’s EnviroAtlas Explores How Ecosystem Services Mitigate Natural Disasters
This multi-purpose mapping tool describes how good management of local ecosystems can reduce the impact of flooding, hurricanes, extreme heat…
Choosing the Proper Soil Volume and Type for Urban Planting
Many research studies have confirmed that, without adequate soil volume and composition, trees won’t thrive. In fact, they’re unlikely to…
Maintenance Guidelines for Green Stormwater Systems
The University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center created Maintenance Guidelines and Checklists for pervious pavements, subsurface gravel wetlands, and bioretention…
Field Guide to Maintaining Rain Gardens and Stormwater Planters
Oregon State University hosts the Field Guide: Maintaining Rain Gardens, Swales, and Stormwater Planters, which was developed by numerous practitioners…
Sample MOU: Cooperation on Green Streets between DOT and Urban Forestry
This memorandum of understanding, between the New York City Department of Transportation and its urban forestry agency, the Department of…