National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council – Five-year Benchmark Report 2016-2026
This 4-page benchmark report assesses and documents the work that has occurred from 2016 to 2021 and identifies key opportunities…
Urban and Community Forestry: Why Federal Support is Critical
This informational brief – State forestry agencies work in partnership with the USDA Forest Service to provide critical assistance to…
Urban and Community Forestry Under the Landscape Scale Restoration Program
The 2018 Farm Bill codified the Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) program. The program originated with the 2008 Farm Bill and…
Natural Turned National Infrastructure: Urban Forest Patches in the 21st Century
Communities nationwide contain natural areas such as forest patches. Maintaining and restoring urban forest patches can provide life-saving regional cooling,…
Evaluating Stormwater Benefits of Atlanta’s Urban Forest
This project documents the contribution of urban tree systems to stormwater nutrient and volume control in terms of their effectiveness at…
Green Infrastructure and Health Guide
Willamette Partnership and Oregon Public Health Institute built the “Green Infrastructure and Health Guide” for the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange…
Estimates of Carbon Dioxide Withheld by Urban Hardwood Products
This study examines how simple home products made of hardwoods can prevent carbon from being emitted into the atmosphere. In…
Impact of Abandoned Housing on Cities
This thoughtful and data-rich paper explores the issue of endemic long-term vacancies on urban neighborhoods and describes some of the…
Reclaiming Lumber from Wood Waste
An early and incisive analysis of rethinking how communities approach the issue of wood waste: lose it [in landfills] or…
Quantified Ventures: The Business Case for Using Local, Fresh-Cut Wood
This report explores the viability of investing in an urban wood processing center in the city of Baltimore. While the…
What About the Trees? Trees as Nature-Based “Shade Sails”
Summarizes how exposure to nature improves health and well-being for people of all ages. Co-author Dr. Robert Zarr is founder…
Sources of Federal Funding for Disaster Recovery
While FEMA provides the bulk of Federal funding for pre-disaster planning and post-disaster funding, nearly half-a-dozen other agencies offer support…
Chicago: Lessons Learned from the Urban Forestry Climate Change Framework
This document describes a framework developed and piloted in the Chicago region to assess the vulnerability of urban forests and…
Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States
Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming…
Funding Trees for Health: An Analysis of Funding and Policy Options for Local Governments
American cities spend less than a third of a percent of municipal budgets on tree planting and maintenance, and as…
Urban Tree Conservation: A White Paper on Local Ordinance Approaches
This paper is a discussion of various approaches to conservation of urban forests on private property. It represents a collection…
Green Infrastructure Improves Urban Environments
This research focuses on the challenges posed by development in the wildland-urban interface and opportunities for increasing resilience through an integrated approach…
Engineering Street Trees
Street trees when planted strategically and grown efficiently can prevent stormwater runoff and improve soil retention.
Monthly Energy Review
A monthly review of energy sources, areas of consumption, and emissions.
Heat Island Impacts
Excessive heat events are particularly dangerous and can result in above-average rates of mortality, excessive heat exposure contributed to more…
Using Urban Forests to Reduce Heat Islands
Trees and vegetation are most useful as a mitigation strategy when planted in strategic locations around buildings or to shade…
Thoughtful development can improve public health
The physical, service, and social environments of neighborhoods have been repeatedly and strongly linked to mortality, general health status, disability,…
NYC’s Hot … and Getting Hotter
Scientists predict average temperatures in NYC will jump between 4.1 and 5.7 degrees by the 2050s. An additional investment of…
Planting Healthy Air
A world-wide research project by The Nature Conservancy in 245 cities found that investing just US$4 per resident in tree…