Tree Planning and Planting Campaigns: A Guide for Reforesting Cities and Towns
This guide covers compelling arguments for increasing or retaining urban trees. Given that only about 20% of urban and suburban…
Incorporating Forestry into Stormwater Management Programs: State of the Science and Business Model Evaluation for Nutrient Reduction and Volume Control
This project documents the contribution of urban tree systems to stormwater nutrient and volume control in terms of their effectiveness…
Natural gas leaks and tree death: A first-look case-control study of urban trees in Chelsea, MA USA
Urban tree canopies may be threatened by fugitive methane exposure from leaky natural gas distribution systems. A case-control study was…
Urban Tree Monitoring
Field monitoring of urban trees is essential to understanding how urban forests change over time. This five-part animated series is…
Urban tree monitoring: A resource guide
The guidelines proposed in Urban Tree Monitoring: A Resource Guide were developed and refined over many years to address the need…
Urban Tree Monitoring: A Field Guide
This report provides detailed protocols for urban tree monitoring data collection. The intent of this Field Guide is to serve…
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Reduction by Sacramento’s Urban Forest
Sacramento County’s 6 million trees store 8 million tons of CO2 (31 t/ha), and annually sequester 238,000 t (0.92 t/ha).…
Effects of Urban Tree Management and Species Selection of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Trees sequester and store carbon in their tissue at differing rates and amounts based on such factors as tree size…
Urban Trees and Forests of the Chicago Region
An analysis of trees in the Chicago region of Illinois reveals that this area has about 157,142,000 trees with tree…