Protecting Drinking Water at the Source
A new era of source water protection is emerging. Utilities increasingly recognize that protecting sources of drinking water and securing…
Greening without Gentrification: Learning from Parks-Related Anti-Displacement Strategies Nationwide
When large parks are built in historically marginalized urban areas, they can contribute to “green gentrification,” a process involving increases…
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…
Urban Trees and Human Health
While most research focuses on the relationship between green space or “nature” and public health, this analysis drills down to…
STEW-MAP: Understanding the Landscape of Conservation
The STEW-MAP process, developed by the USDA Forest Service, provides officials and civic leaders a unique tool to identify and…
Census of Municipal Urban Forestry Programs, 2014
Hundreds of programs from cities and communities around the nation — from very small to the largest — completed a…
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…
Health Impact Assessment of Philadelphia’s Tree Canopy
A team of scientists, including researchers at the USDA Philadelphia Field Station, projected the impact on mortality if Philadelphia reaches…
Grand Rapids Report Card
Many communities have developed urban forestry plans. But few have assessed and published regular reports on progress in implementing them.…
US Urban Forest Statistics, Values, and Projections
The latest nationwide assessment on extent of urban tree canopy, organized by community, along with projections for future growth —…
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…
Green Seattle Partnership Models Regional Urban Natural Areas Restoration
The Green Seattle Partnership (GSP) was launched in 2005 to create a model for urban forest natural area restoration in…
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…
London Trees Save the City Billions
A new report from Britain’s Office of National Statistics estimates tree cover saved the capital more than 5 billion pounds…
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…
Outcome Oriented Policy: Protecting the Urban Forest Through Tree Preservation and Complementary Land Development
The City of Austin has some of the most progressive urban forest and environmental land development regulations in the country.…
Preservation, Regulations, and Policy to Protect and Grow Baltimore’s Forests
Non-profit Baltimore Green Space (BGS), Baltimore’s Department of Recreation and Parks (BCRP), and Baltimore’s Office of Sustainability (BOS) have played…
Regulations, Incentives, Outreach and Fragmented Ecosystem: Miami-Dade County
The County adopted a forest property tax program in 1979, passed a forest preservation ordinance in 1984, and created a…
Aligning City Forest Management by Engaging Community Partners in New York City
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) manages the majority 7,300-acres of natural area forests through…
Worldwide Study Shows Relationship Between Greenness and Lower Mortality
The authors systematically reviewed and analyzed more than 9,200 studies conducted worldwide. The meta-analysis found evidence that surrounding greenness reduced…