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…
The 3-year Growing Tree Canopy through Environmental Justice project focused on delivering in-depth community engagement with tree canopy in the…
Tucson is located in the Sonoran Desert, 117 km north of the US-Mexico border. The borderland region is an area…
The Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI) has collected one of the largest data sets on urban forestry in the United…
The City of Houston faces a unique set of natural and developmental resiliency challenges that make it especially vulnerable to…
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks) owns 30,000 acres of property in New York City,…
The urban forest and natural areas of Lady Bird Lake receive over 4 million visitors each year and represent the…
The Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI) is a partnership of more than 200 organizations across the seven county Chicago metro…
The concept of anchor institutions has been around for over a decade, but the idea of what it truly means…
Successful conservation of forested natural areas within a matrix of urban land uses requires an ongoing collaborative relationship between private…
The Urban Wood Network is made up of individuals and entities from Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin. These groups have…
To receive reimbursement, trees must be “qualified” as a municipal asset– that is, a “facility” that delivers tangible services to…
Lays out a comprehensive framework that addresses risk from wildfire and other hazards at multiple scales, and identifies how better planning…
While more and more organizations – domestic and international, public and private – are promoting community resilience to lower disaster tolls, transforming…
The City and County of Denver is making green infrastructure a fundamental part of the city’s long-term stormwater management strategy by…
Yes! If you work at it. This interview with Karen Zumach, Director of Community Forestry at the Tree Trust, St.…
Adding trees to private residential properties is critical to accomplishing urban greening goals, such as ambitious tree canopy cover targets.…
This paper is intended to help the stormwater engineering community more easily account for trees in runoff and pollutant load calculations…
This worksheet was designed to help communities review and revise their development regulations, so that future projects conserve and protect valuable…
Street trees in the urban environment provide important ecosystem services including stormwater management, reducing pollutant discharges and flooding by lessening surface runoff. Does…
This worksheet was designed to help communities review and revise their development regulations, so that future projects conserve and protect…
Whether your community is attempting to revitalize a neglected downtown, pursuing Complete Streets, or trying to foster better transit-oriented development,…
The model, now in wide use, applies general principles of sustainability to urban trees and forests. The central tenet of the model…
Traditionally, conservation practitioners measure success in dollars, acres and biological diversity, and do not often consider factors related to community well-being.…
A metric for incorporating human impacts into conservation strategies
Using Vacant Land to Create Greener Neighborhoods in Baltimore