Assessing Urban Forest Threats across the Conterminous United States

All potential threats are integrated into a cumulative threat index to illustrate which areas of the United States will likely face the greatest overall threat to their urban forests. Urban forests with the greatest cumulative threat per unit area are in the eastern United States, particularly in some coastal counties

Nowak, D., Greenfield, E., Ellis, A. “Assessing Urban Forest Threats across the Conterminous United States,” Journal of Forestry, 2022 

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