Fringe Timber: Informing Regional Mass Timber Urban Environments with Biodiverse Forests
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-13... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Conference Paper] 2022
L. Wikstrom, C.Z. Yu
Trees present a vast array of performance in density, growth speed, height, fibre strength, and rates of carbon absorption. This paper explores how biodiverse mass timber is a way to support forest health and improve the health conditions of the most vulnerable—those who have experienced the pollution of mineral-based materials for generations. This symbiotic relationship between forests and urban environments incentivizes better care for both spaces, the transfer of materials should be reciproc...

Forest Biomass Policies and Regulations in the United States of America
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/9/1415... [Reclaimed Wood] [Urban Wood Utilization] [Journal Article] 2022
Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Carlos Rodriguez Franco, James G. Archuleta, Marcus E. Taylor, Kraig Kidwell, Jeffrey C. High, Kathleen Adam
Using woody biomass from public lands could attract private investments, increase carbon dioxide emission reductions from sustainably harvested low-grade wood to mitigate climate change, provide benefits for the environment, and support rural community economies. Available for use are about 210 million oven dry tons (in the western U.S. alone) of small-diameter wood and harvest residues that could be removed through hazard-fuel treatments and used for bioenergy and bioproducts; representing an e...

Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) manufactured with European oak recovered from demolition: Structural properties and non-destructive evaluation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... [Reclaimed Wood] [Log and Lumber Quality and Grading] [Journal Article] 2022
Daniel F. Llana, Violeta González-Alegre, María Portela, Guillermo Íñiguez-González
The demolition sector generates a large amount of timber waste that could be directly reused or recycled in other products for structural purposes. Timber should be graded before it is used for structural purposes, and visual strength grading standards designed for new timber do not properly grade recovered timber. Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) is now one of the most common wood products used in construction. CLT would therefore be a good option for recycling timber due to the high quantity of ma...

Urban and Community Forestry Funding is Growing
https://extension.psu.edu/urban-and-community-fore... [Health and Safety] [Urban Forestry] [Web Page] 2022
Vincent Cotrone, Extension Educator, Urban Forestry
It wasn't that long ago that there was no funding allocated for urban and community forestry in the USDA Forest Service budget. It is no exaggeration to say that in 1990 urban and community forestry entered a new era in the United States. The national commitment to urban forestry on the part of the federal government was a component of the 1990 Farm Bill that fundamentally changed the nation's approach to managing urban and community forestry. It increased federal funds from $2.7 million in 1990...

TreeVitalize Conference to Focus on Urban Trees and Community Resilience
https://extension.psu.edu/treevitalize-conference-... [Health and Safety] [] [Web Page] 2023
Julianne Schieffer, Extension Urban Forester
The 2023 TreeVitalize Conference, Trees and Community: Rooted in Resilience and Equity, will be held May 31 and June 1, 2023 at the Discovery Center in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. This workshop will gather researchers, community organizers and other stakeholders to cover a variety of topics...

Dealing with Tree Risk: Tips for Municipal Shade Tree Commissions
https://extension.psu.edu/dealing-with-tree-risk-t... [Health and Safety] [] [Web Page] 2023
Vincent Cotrone, Extension Educator, Urban Forestry
An early spring inspection before the leaves come out will help find dead, broken, decaying and structurally defective branches in the canopy of the trees. Even a drive-by inspection by trained and knowledgeable tree commissioners or public works staff is extremely helpful. A follow-up inspection could be completed in late summer to help distinguish branches that are alive (in leaf) and those that are dead. Inspections after major storm events (summer thunderstorms or winter ice) will help find ...

The environmental benefits of reclaimed wooden furniture | Furniture News Magazine
https://www.furniturenews.net/resources/articles/2... [Reclaimed Wood] [Urban Wood Utilization] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2013
Charlotte Brookes
The popularity of using reclaimed wood as opposed to conventional wood to furnish our houses, offices and summerhouses – or anywhere, for that matter – has really escalated in recent years. The now prevailing commonness to make reclaimed wood part of our homes stems not only from the fact that reclaimed timber has a unique, quirky and exquisite look, but also due to the environmental benefits salvaged wood generates....

West Coast Arborists
https://westcoastarborists.com... [Companies and Products] [Networks and Associations] [Web Page] 2018
WCA
West Coast Arborists, Inc. (WCA, Inc.) was established in 1972. Today, the family-owned company is providing professional tree maintenance and management services for over 330 municipalities and public agencies throughout California and Arizona....

Locally Sourced Lumber Yard Offers Great Building Materials
https://horiganufp.com... [Companies and Products] [Urban Wood Utilization] [Web Page] 2023

Looking for lumber that’s sourced and manufactured locally in the northern Illinois and Chicago area? Look no further than Horigan Urban Forest Products! With a focus on sustainability, we provide municipalities, builders, and homeowners with quality lumber....

Relationships between urbanization and the oak resource of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area from 1991 to 1998
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/8413... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2006
Kromroy, Kathryn; Ward, Kathleen; Castillo, Paul; Juzwik, Jennifer
Urbanization was associated with loss and transformation of the oak forest in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul) metropolitan area (TCMA) over a recent 7-year interval. Between 1991 and 1998, urbanization increased based on several indicators: population density, area of developed land, and area of impervious surface?total impervious area and area within three classes of increasing degree of imperviousness (protected, affected, and degraded). We quantified relationships between changes ...

Restoring ecosystem resilience to urban forests using Dutch elm disease-tolerant American elm trees
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/54958... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Conference Paper] 2016
Flower, Charles E; Pinchot, Cornelia C; Slavicek, James M
Abstract Urban forests contribute significantly to human health and environmental quality (Sanesi et al. As such, maintaining healthy urban forests resilient to pollution (atmospheric and soil), high temperatures, compacted soils, and poor drainage is critical. However, these forests have been hard hit by development, pests, and pathogens, consequently reshaping their diversity, structure, and resilience. Note: This article is part of a larger document. Citation 2017. Restoring ecosystem r...

Emerald ash borer impacts on visual preferences for urban forest recreation settings
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/54736... [Urban Forestry] [Invasive Species] [Journal Article] 2017
Arnberger, Arne; Schneider, Ingrid E.; Ebenberger, Martin; Eder, Renate; Venette, Robert C.; Snyder, Stephanie A.; Gobster, Paul H.; Choi, Ami; Cottrell, Stuart
Extensive outbreaks of the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis; EAB), an invasive forest insect, are having serious impacts on the cultural ecosystem services of urban forests in the United States and other countries. Limited experience with how such outbreaks might affect recreational opportunities prompted this investigation of visitors to a state park in St Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, where EAB damage is occurring. A photoquestionnaire solicited visitors visual preferences for tra...

Acceptance sampling for cost-effective surveillance of emerald ash borer in urban environments
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/58006... [Invasive Species] [Urban Forestry] [Journal Article] 2019
Yemshanov, Denys ; Haight, Robert G.; Liu, Ning ; Chen, Cuicui ; MacQuarrie, Chris J.K.; Ryall, Krista ; Venette, Robert ; Koch, Frank H.
Abstract We develop an acceptance sampling approach for surveillance of the emerald ash borer (EAB), a harmful forest pest, in Winnipeg, Canada. We compare sampling strategies computed with two different management objectives. The first objective maximizes the expected area with detected infestations and the second objective minimizes the expected number of undetected infested trees in sites that were not inspected or where inspection did not find an infestation. The choice of the management ...

Managing biological invasions in urban environments with the acceptance sampling approach
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/58467... [Urban Forestry] [Unclassified/Other]

Abstract Detections of invasive species outbreaks are often followed by the removal of susceptible host organisms in order to slow the spread of the invading pest population. We propose the acceptance sampling approach for detection and optional removal of susceptible host trees to manage an outbreak of the emerald ash borer (EAB), a highly destructive forest pest, in Winnipeg, Canada. We compare the strategy with two common delimiting survey techniques that do not consider follow-up managemen...

Red maple (Acer rubrum L.) trees demonstrate acclimation to urban conditions in deciduous forests embedded in cities
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/60927... [Urban Forestry] [] [Journal Article] 2020
McDermot, Covel R.; Minocha, Rakesh ; D'Amico, Vince ; Long, Stephanie ; Trammell, Tara L. E.
Abstract The impacts of urbanization, such as urban heat island (UHI) and nutrient loads, can influence tree function through altered physiology and metabolism and stress response, which has implications for urban forest health in cities across the world. Our goal was to compare growth-stimulating and stress-mitigating acclimation patterns of red maple (Acer rubrum) trees in deciduous forests embedded in a small (Newark, DE, US) and a large (Philadelphia, PA, US) city. The study was conducted ...

Back from the Brink: Forest Service Efforts to Create Dutch Elm Disease Tolerant Trees for Use in Urban and Rural Restoration
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/61948... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Journal Article] 2020
Flower, Charles E; Pinchot, Cornelia C; Knight, Kathleen S; Woeste, Keith ; Slavicek, James M
The Sixth International Workshop on the Genetics of Host-Parasite Interactions in Forestry: Tree Resistance: Putting Promise into Practice was held the first week of August 2018 at Deer Creek State Park in Mt. Sterling, Ohio. The workshop provided a continuing conduit for bringing together researchers, tree breeders, and forest managers to focus on perhaps the most salient action society can take to restore tree species imperiled by invasive pests and pathogens—developing and deploying resistant...

Restoring the iconic Ulmus americana to urban landscapes
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/65326... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Journal Article] 2022
Mikolajewski, Danielle ; D Amico, Vince ; Sonti, Nancy F; Pinchot, Cornelia C; Flower, Charles E; Roman, Lara A; Trammell, Tara LE
Native trees provide a range of benefits, from supporting native wildlife to climate regulation, and many urban natural resource managers prioritize native tree planting and restoration. Ulmus americana (American elm) was once widely planted in American cities but has been decimated by Dutch elm disease (DED; Ophiostoma ulmi). Our study evaluated U. americana establishment and growth across urban landscapes. We planted ramets from three DED-tolerant U. americana genotypes (RV16, RV474, and Sunfi...

The short-term and long-term effects of honeysuckle removal on canopy structure and implications for urban forest management
https://www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2022/nrs_202... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Journal Article] 2022
Alexander Fotis, Charles E. Flower, Jeff W. Atkins, Cornelia C. Pinchot, Amanda D. Rodewald, Stephen Matthews
Riparian forests across the continental United States are heavily invaded by Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii (Rupr.)), an invasive shrub which suppresses native plants, homogenizes community structure and composition, and alters ecosystem processes. However, no studies have quantified the impacts of honeysuckle removal on forest canopy structure across the first decade of restoration. In this study we used a portable canopy LiDAR (PCL) to characterize the immediate (<1 year), short-term (1–2 ...

The short-term and long-term effects of honeysuckle removal on canopy structure and implications for urban forest management
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/64377... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Journal Article] 2022
Fotis, Alexander ; Flower, Charles E.; Atkins, Jeff W.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Rodewald, Amanda D.; Matthews, Stephen
Riparian forests across the continental United States are heavily invaded by Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii (Rupr.)), an invasive shrub which suppresses native plants, homogenizes community structure and composition, and alters ecosystem processes. However, no studies have quantified the impacts of honeysuckle removal on forest canopy structure across the first decade of restoration. In this study we used a portable canopy LiDAR (PCL) to characterize the immediate (<1 year), short-term (1–2 ...

Restoration and Conservation of Rural and Urban Forests - Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service
https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/units/restoration... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Web Page] 2023

Restoration and Conservation of Rural and Urban Forests. We study the many roles of fungi in forests. We study pathogens and insect pests that damage the health of trees and forest systems. biochemical responses to various stress factors. From urban centers to wildland, the Restoration. and Conservation of Rural and Urban Forests research unit (NRS-16). pursues science related to restoration of forests affected by disease, insect. attacks, introduction of new species, fragmentation, or ch...