Monitoring and Inventorying Trees | Cross Timbers Urban Forestry Council
http://ctufc.org/news/monitoring-and-inventorying-... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Web Page] 2021
Jeremy Priest
New guidelines from the US Forest Service mark a distinct shift from inventorying to monitoring individual trees. This distinction has many advantages such as more accurate tracking of individual tree growth rates. The full article (featured in Arborist News) details the distinction of monitoring and how it produces. Some North Texas cities already practice monitoring and have software to take full advantage of the data. As opposed to an inventory of trees that may be updated later, monitori...

Maryland Forestry Foundation
https://marylandforestryfoundation.org... [Education] [Networks and Associations] [Web Page] 2021

Promotes sustainable forestry through active legislative advocacy, administers the largest tree-planting operation on private property in the state, directly supports several Urban Forestry programs, manages the largest college Fellowships in the field of Natural Resources in the mid-Atlantic and acts as the fiduciary agent for Maryland Forestry Board programs such as the Natural Resources Careers Camp for high school students. Increase public awareness of environmental concerns, good sustainabl...

How an interior design firm is rethinking timber in the workplace - Ashwell Timber
https://ashwelltimber.com/interior-design-timber-w... [Reclaimed Wood] [Companies and Products] [Web Page] 2019

The pressure on us all to reduce carbon emissions in the built environment and to think in terms of long-term sustainability is constantly increasing. While some are still debating sustainable design strategies, and how to best specify materials that reduce carbon emissions, BASE Interiors has chosen action. Their Cheil Basement workplace design scheme uses reclaimed FSC certified Jarrah and Opepe in a process that prevents further deforestation, saves energy and mineral resources, and protect...

Urban tree database
https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/Catalog/RDS-20... [Urban Forestry] [] [Report] 2016
McPherson, E. Gregory; van Doorn, Natalie S.; Peper, Paula J.
This data publication contains urban tree growth data collected over a period of 14 years (1998-2012) in 17 cities from 13 states across the United States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and South Carolina. Measurements were taken on over 14,000 urban street and park trees. Key information collected for each tree species includes bole and crown size, location, and age. Based on these measurements, 365 sets ...

A Tulip Poplar Tree Gets a Second Life as a Table, Thanks to Architecture Students | UVA Today
https://news.virginia.edu/content/tulip-poplar-tre... [Reclaimed Wood] [Education] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2021
Matt Kelly
On a recent Friday afternoon, Youfang Duan and Tim Victorio slowly drizzled a second coat of epoxy onto large slabs of milled and sanded poplar wood, then smoothed it out with small scrapers to make an even covering. They had just worked over the wood with hand-held electric sanders to rough up the surface so the new layer of epoxy would adhere better. Victorio and Duan, graduate students in architecture and landscape architecture, respectively, are part of a team turning a piece of University...

Our Mission - Speak for the Trees, Boston
https://treeboston.org/our-work/our-mission... [Networks and Associations] [Environment and Sustainability] [Web Page] 2021

The mission of Speak for the Trees is to improve the size and health of the urban tree canopy in Boston, with a focus on under-resourced and under-canopied neighborhoods. We develop and co-create projects at the community level. We believe that change happens when residents have ownership over their spaces and are empowered to take action. We view tree planting, care, and stewardship as a way to connect residents to themselves, their neighborhood, and the global environment. We raise awarene...

Sacramento urban forest makes Top 10 list
https://www.sactree.com:443/news/83... [Urban Forestry] [Success Stories and Reports] [Web Page] 2013
Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee
Sacramento s urban tree canopy has been named one of the 10 best urban forests in America. The distinction was announced Tuesday by American Forests, a nonprofit group based in Washington, DC That city also made the group s list of 10 Best Urban Forests, along with Austin, Charlotte, Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, Seattle and Portland. The selections were based on an in depth survey funded by the US Forest Service that included independent data gathering and a review by a blue-ribbo...

What is an Urban Forest?
http://dallastrees.org/?page_id=65... [Urban Forestry] [Education] [Web Page] 2021
City of Dallas Forestry
Quite simply, the urban forest is a term used to refer to all of the trees typically within the city limits. In Dallas, this includes everything from the large and abundant trees found in the Great Trinity Forest to the trees that line Monticello Avenue in the M Streets. Our urban forest includes the wonderful canopy of trees found in our parks and even the trees in your neighborhood...

Master Plan for the Dallas Urban Forest
http://dallastrees.org/?p=2153... [Urban Forestry] [] [Web Page] 2019
City of Dallas Forestry
Dallas wants to make the city shadier. The city is partnering with the Texas Trees Foundation to develop a plan that will protect the city’s trees and plant more of them to keep the area cooler when temperatures rise. It’s a coincidence that the plan’s announcement comes weeks after straight-line winds downed hundreds of trees across Dallas, said Susan Alvarez, assistant director for the Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability....

Goals, obstacles and effective strategies of wildfire mitigation programs in the Wildland-Urban Interface
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/23848... [Fire Risk Management] [] [Report] 2005
Margaret A. Reams, Terry K. Haines, Cheryl R. Renner, Michael W. Wascom, Harish Kingre
The dramatic expansion into the Wildland–Urban Interface (WUI) places property, natural assets, and human life at risk from wildfire destruction. The U.S. National Fire Plan encourages communities to implement laws and outreach programs for pre-fire planning to mitigate the risk to area residents. Starting in 2003, we surveyed the administrators of regulatory and voluntary wildfire risk reduction programs in 25 U.S. states. These state and local programs are listed on the United States Departmen...

A Case Study of a Community Affected by the Witch and Guejito Fires: Evaluating the Effects of Hazard Mitigation Actions on Structure Ignitions
https://www.nist.gov/publications/case-study-commu... [Fire Risk Management] [] [Report] 2013
Maranghides, A. , McNamara, D. , Mell, W. , Trook, J. and Toman, B.
The NIST WUI Team was invited by CAL FIRE to collect post incident data from the California October 2007 fires. Early on, the NIST WUI Team initiated a case study within the Witch Fire perimeter. The case study is focused on the Trails development at Rancho Bernardo, north of the city of San Diego. There were 270 homes in the Trails community, with 242 within the fire perimeter. Of these, 74 homes were completely destroyed and 16 were partly damaged. Field measurements included structure pa...

Using structure locations as a basis for mapping the wildland urban interface
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/43857... [Fire Risk Management] [] [Journal Article] 2013
Avi Bar-Massada, Susan I. Stewart, Roger B. Hammer, Miranda H. Mockrin, Volker C. Radeloff
The wildland urban interface (WUI) delineates the areas where wildland fire hazard most directly impacts human communities and threatens lives and property, and where houses exert the strongest influence on the natural environment. Housing data are a major problem for WUI mapping. When housing data are zonal, the concept of a WUI neighborhood can be captured easily in a density measure, but variations in zone (census block) size and shape introduce bias. Other housing data are points, so zonal i...

A mixed logit model of homeowner preferences for wildfire hazard reduction
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/39093... [Fire Risk Management] [] [Report] 2009
Thomas P. Holmes, John Loomis, Armando González-Cabán
People living in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are at greater risk of suffering major losses of property and life from wildfires. Over the past several decades the prevailing view has been that wildfire risk in rural areas was exogenous to the activities of homeowners. In response to catastrophic fires in the WUI over the past few years, recent approaches to fire management and prevention in the WUI have emphasized activities that can be taken by landowners and communities to reduce the ris...

Economic Contributions of Urban Forests in Texas | Cross Timbers Urban Forestry Council
http://ctufc.org/news/economic-contributions-of-ur... [Education] [Urban Wood Utilization] [Report] 2021
Texas A&M Forest Service
The value of traditional forest products has long been recognized to be of economic importance. Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS) has a history of tracking timber price data, dating all the way back to 1984. Additionally, TFS economic contributions studies of the Texas forest sector have been conducted regularly since 1999. The most recent analysis determined the Texas forest sector directly contributed $18.9 billion of industry output to the Texas economy. While the importance of traditional f...

An integrated optimization model for fuel management and fire suppression preparedness planning | SpringerLink
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10479-0... [Fire Risk Management] [] [Journal Article] 2015
Minas, J., Hearne, J. & Martell, D
A number of recent fire incidents in the wildland urban interface (WUI) in Australia, North America and Europe have received widespread media coverage and brought attention to the detrimental impacts of forest fires (Martell 2011). Changing weather conditions associated with climate change...

TEXAS WILDFIRE RISK ASSESSMENT PORTAL
https://texaswildfirerisk.com... [Fire Risk Management] [] [Web Page] 2022
Texas A&M Forest Service
We Received a Facelift and Added New Features! Learn More Below. Welcome to Your Resource for Wildfire Risk Information. Explore the Site or Learn More about Our Applications and Resources Here. Assess Wildfire Risk in Your Area. Creating and maintaining defensible space is crucial to improve your home s chance of surviving a wildfire event. Learn how you can join Firewise USA , a national program that encourages homeowners and communities to take action to reduce their wildfire risk. Lear...

Urban and community forests of the Southern Atlantic region: Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/19918... [Education] [Urban Forestry] [Report] 2009
David J. Nowak, Eric J. Greenfield
This report details how land cover and urbanization vary within the states of Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia; and the District of Columbia by community (incorporated and census designated places), county subdivision, and county. Specifically this report provides critical urban and community forestry information for each state including human population characteristics and trends, changes in urban and community lands, tree canopy ...

Citizen Forester | Cross Timbers Urban Forestry Council
http://ctufc.org/citizen-forester... [Networks and Associations] [Education] [Web Page] 2019
Cross Timbers Urban Forestry Council
The Citizen Forester program presents a wonderful opportunity for individuals to become skilled at planting, pruning, and maintaining trees in an urban environment. It also provides interested persons with the chance to get involved with local city and county agencies and help their community take care of its public trees. The program has been active since 2006 and has graduated over 150 volunteers to dedicate their time to their communities....

Resources | Urban Tree Alliance
https://www.urbantreealliance.org/resources-2... [Education] [Urban Forestry] [Unclassified/Other] 2021
Urban Tree Alliance
Looking for information about the trees in the Madison area urban forest?. Peruse statistics on Madison s urban forest (such as species diversity and canopy cover) and discover the many benefits trees provide to an urban environment. Find out more about the deadly pest attacking our ash trees, the Emerald Ash Borer. See the Urban Tree Alliance in action and learn about tree care and other urban forestry topics through our videos, newsletters, links and documents. Please click on the links to...

Emerald Ash Borer: A Green Menace - Colorado State Forest Service
https://csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/emera... [Invasive Species] [Education] [Web Page] 2020
Dana Coelho, Dan West
Ash trees were widely planted in Colorado urban neighborhoods. Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis; EAB) is an insect native to Asia. It was introduced into North America sometime during the 1990s, probably via ash wood pallets or wood packing material. Since its initial discovery in southeastern Michigan in 2002, this insect has killed millions of ash trees (Fraxinus spp. ) throughout the central and northeastern United States and Canada. EAB is now considered the most destructive tree i...