Urban Lumber Production: Lincoln Urban Wood Study
https://nfs.unl.edu/publications/downloads/Urban%2... [Urban Wood Utilization] [Invasive Species] [Brochure/Product Sheet] 2008
Nebraska Forest Service
Communities across Nebraska are increasing the management of of emerald ash borer. The removal to emerald ash borer or other tree While some wood waste is converted to create valuable products for sale or for the creation of finished wood. In Lincoln, there has been intrigue in the feasibility of an urban wood business and development of an urban wood network. To answer these questions, a study was designed to understand the quality and production potential of urban lumber from city trees. Th...

Chippewa Valley Urban Wood Project - eco Urban Timber LLC
https://ecourbantimber.com/urban-wood-project-2... [Networks and Associations] [Urban Wood Utilization] [Web Page] 2022
Eco Urban Timber LLC
About the Chippewa Valley Urban Wood Project. The Chippewa Valley Urban Wood Project began in 2014 as part of a collation of Leadership Eau Claire, the Wisconsin DNR and the city of Eau Claire s efforts to encourage more recycling of dead urban trees, especially those we are anticipating being killed by the emerald ash borer. Many local businesses have joined together through this project to provide the widest selection of high-quality, sustainable wood products available in Western Wisconsin....

Tree Campus Healthcare - The Arbor Day Foundation
https://www.arborday.org/programs/tree-campus-heal... [Health and Safety] [Urban Forestry] [Web Page] 2022
Arbor Day Foundation
Tree canopy is a critical component of community health infrastructure — but urban tree cover is shrinking, and its health benefits are not often equitably distributed. The Tree Campus Healthcare program recognizes health institutions that make a mission-aligned impact on community wellness through tree education, investment, and community engagement....

Benefits of Urban Wood
http://urbanwood.org/wood/details/benefits... [Networks and Associations] [Urban Wood Utilization] [Web Page] 2021

The innovative Urbanwood program encourages municipalities to recycle their dead street and park trees into high quality products. This helps all of us:Communities have more options to use, rather than throw away valuable wood. This is one more way that we can help our cities responsibly manage our natural resources. In addition, recycling can help cities reduce their wood disposal costs. . Area wood industries have access to a new sustainable source for raw materials and are building stronge...

URBAN FORESTS & URBAN TREE USE OPPORTUNITIES ON LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCALES Urban Forests and Urban Tree Use Opportunities on Local, State, National, and International Scales
https://dovetailinc.org/report_pdfs/2014/dovetailu... [Urban Wood Utilization] [Networks and Associations] [Report] 2014
Steve Bratkovich, Kathryn Fernholz, Jeff Howe, MAtt Frank, Ed Pepke, Jim Bowyer,
Traditionally, the core responsibilities of an urban and community forester revolved around tree planting, tree removal, and tree maintenance. These responsibilities have expanded over the last few decades to include management considerations such as water flow and water quality, air pollution mitigation, air temperature modification, carbon sequestration, human health, invasive plants, wildlife management, and tree (wood) utilization. In October 2010, Dovetail Partners published a report on t...

Urban Ashes Partners with NextCycle Michigan | Illinois Urban Wood
https://illinoisurbanwood.org/urban-ashes-partners... [Networks and Associations] [Urban Wood Utilization] [Web Page] 2021
Illinois Urban Wood
Urban Ashes of Saline, MI, announced its commitment as a NextCycle Michigan Partner to maximize opportunities for developing recycling, recovery, and sustainable businesses in Michigan. Urban Ashes is one of more than 30 Michigan companies, organizations and nonprofits partnering in the program that targets the missed opportunities and wasted natural resources within the urban forests of Michigan. The U.S. Forest Service estimates that Michigan loses about 1.7 million tons of furniture grade lum...

Urban Woody Biomass Utilization for Economic Development
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/rips/fplrip-333... [Urban Wood Utilization] [Reclaimed Wood] [Report] 2014
Liz Burdock, Cindy Truit, Karen Martinson
The Forest Product Laboratory (FPL) feasibility study for urban woody biomass utilization for urban economic development provides a framework for an integrated system for collection, processing, and distribution of urban woody biomass in Baltimore, Maryland. Unlike many existing urban wood utilization efforts, this integrated system includes deconstructed building materials, resulting in value-added products and opportunities to generate economic gains and jobs for inner-city residents. The key ...

TreesCharlotte Prepares our Urban Forests for Climate Change
https://treescharlotte.org/tree-education/climate-... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Web Page] 2020
Kate Bolkin
As forceful fires sweep across the western United States, severe hurricanes become a growing concern on the east coast, and repeated record-breaking floods hit the Midwest, it is clear that climate change is no longer something that we can put in the back of our minds. The city of Charlotte is no exception to these rapidly approaching climatic threats. A study by the Environmental Protection Agency found that North Carolina has increased its average temperature by half a degree (F) since the e...

Waukesha County, WI, Urban Wood Program Among SFI Community Grant Recipients | Illinois Urban Wood
https://illinoisurbanwood.org/waukesha-county-wi-u... [Networks and Associations] [Environment and Sustainability] [Web Page] 2021
Illinois Urban Wood
Urban Wood User s Resource Guide. Aug 16 2021 0Commentby Urban Wood Update. Waukesha County, WI, Urban Wood Program Among SFI Community Grant Recipients Posted in News. The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) announced 13 SFI Community Grants today featuring collaboration between 63 partner organizations in the United States and Canada, including two that dovetail with the development of a new SFI Urban and Community Forest Sustainability Standard. One of SFI s grants supports,. Promoting...

Strategic removal of host trees in isolated, satellite infestations of emerald ash borer can reduce population growth
https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/54423... [Invasive Species] [Urban Forestry] [Journal Article] 2017
Fahrner, Samuel J.; Abrahamson, Mark; Venette, Robert C.; Aukema, Brian H.
Emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle causing significant mortality of ash trees (Fraxinus spp.) in North America and western Russia. The invasive range has expanded to more than half of the states in the United States since the initial detection in Michigan, USA in 2002. Emerald ash borer is typically managed with a combination of techniques including surveys/trapping, insecticide treatments, host tree removal, biological control, and public education/outreach. The insect's rapid spread rate ...

Urban tree database and allometric equations | Treesearch
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/52933... [Urban Forestry] [] [Report] 2016
E. Gregory McPherson; Natalie S. van Doorn; Paula J. Peper
Information on urban tree growth underpins models used to calculate the effects of trees on the environment and human well-being. Maximum tree size and other growth data are used by urban forest managers, landscape architects, and planners to select trees most suitable to the amount of growing space, thereby reducing costly future conflicts between trees and infrastructure. Growth data are used to examine relationships between growth and influencing factors such as site conditions and stewardshi...

5-Step Plan for Managing Urban Forests to Fight Climate Change | Illinois Urban Wood
https://illinoisurbanwood.org/5-step-plan-for-mana... [Environment and Sustainability] [Urban Forestry] [Web Page] 2021
Illinois Urban Wood
Vibrant Cities Lab developed the Climate & Health Action Guide. It outlines a process for creating an urban forestry project to optimize for climate and health outcomes. The guide is designed to help the user “reduce climate risks and proactively respond to changing conditions while also providing important benefits to the health and well-being of your community.” The underlying key premise of the guide is that “Healthy urban forests provide substantial benefits for communities, improving the e...

Video: Deadwood Revival Design brings urban forest full circle | Illinois Urban Wood
https://illinoisurbanwood.org/video-deadwood-reviv... [Environment and Sustainability] [Urban Wood Utilization] [Web Page] 2021
Illinois Urban Wood
Deadwood Revival Design of San Luis Obispo, CA, has built its business model around producing handcrafted furniture and slabs salvaged from California’s central coast. According to its website, “Deadwood Revival Design is a team of passionate artisans who believe in offering their customers not only the highest quality products but designs made from 100% guilt-free wood…. When you enlist our services, you gain the automatic assurance that each and every piece of wood that we use came from a tre...

The Story of Urban Wood Guitars | Illinois Urban Wood
https://illinoisurbanwood.org/the-story-of-urban-w... [Networks and Associations] [Urban Wood Utilization] [Web Page] 2021
Illinois Urban Wood
One strength of the Urban Wood Network is the inclusion of every aspect of the supply chain. Typically businesses network within their own direct niches, but that can limit the scope of collaboration, something the Urban Wood Network aims to overcome. One stunning example of this shows in the collaboration between three Urban Wood Network members West Coast Arborists (WCA), Wood-Mizer, and Tree San Diego, and how these three directly and indirectly connected with end-user guitar manufacturer T...

The socioeconomics and management of Santiago de Chile's public urban forests
https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/5584... [Urban Forestry] [misMatch] [Journal Article] 2006
Escobedo, Francisco J.; Nowak, David J.; Wagner, John E.; Luz De la Maza, Carmen; Rodríguez, Manuel; Crane, Daniel E.; Hernández, Jamie; Herná ndez, Jamie
Santiago, Chile's semi-arid climate and urbanized environment poses a severe limitation for the establishment and maintenance of urban forests. Municipalities, or comunas, are the main stakeholders in the management of Santiago's public urban forests. A tenable hypothesis would be that as the socioeconomic level of a comuna increases, the better the condition of a comuna's urban forest. Unfortunately, there is little comprehensive information on management, public expenditure, and structure of S...

Strategic National Urban Forest Inventory for the United States
https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2021/nrs_2021_... [Urban Forestry] [] [Journal Article] 2021
Christopher B Edgar, David J Nowak, Mark A Majewsky, Tonya W Lister, James A Westfall, Nancy F Sonti, Christopher B Edgar
In response to the strategic plan required by the Agricultural Act of 2014, the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program is initiating a strategic inventory of the nation s urban forests. The inventory is designed to provide timely and credible data on urban forests, thereby meeting an expanding need for information on trees located in communities where more than 80% of people live. The program monitors the status and trends of trees in urban settings (i.e., urban forests)...

Effects of urban tree management and species selection on atmospheric carbon dioxide | Treesearch
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/18815... [Environment and Sustainability] [Urban Forestry] [Journal Article] 2002
David J. Nowak; Jack C. Stevens; Susan M. Sisinni; Christopher J. Luley
Trees sequester and store carbon in their tissue at differing rates and amounts based on such factors as tree size at maturity, life span, and growth rate. Concurrently, tree care practices release carbon back to the atmosphere based on fossil-fuel emissions from maintenance equipment (e.g., chain saws, trucks, chippers). Management choices such as tree locations for energy conservation and tree disposal methods after removal also affect the net carbon effect of the urban forest. Different speci...

Atmospheric carbon reduction by urban trees | Treesearch
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/18803... [Environment and Sustainability] [Urban Forestry] [Journal Article] 1993
David J. Nowak
Trees, because they sequester atmospheric carbon through their growth process and conserve energy in urban areas, have been suggested as one means to combat increasing levels of atmospheric carbon. Analysis of the urban forest in Oakland, California (21% tree cover), reveals a tree carbon storage level of 11.0 metric tons/hectare. Trees in the area of the 1991 fire in Oakland stored approximately 14 500 metric tons of carbon, 10% of the total amount stored by Oakland's urban forest. National urb...

Houston’s Urban Forest, 2015 | Pacific Northwest Research Station | PNW - US Forest Service
https://www.fs.usda.gov/pnw/publications/houston’s... [Urban Forestry] [Environment and Sustainability] [Report] 2017
Nowak, David J.; Bodine, Allison R.; Hoehn, Robert E.; Edgar, Christopher B.; Riley, Gretchen; Hartel, Dudley R.; Dooley, Kerry J.; Stanton, Sharon M.; Hatfield, Mark A.; Brandeis, Thomas J.; Lister, Tonya W.
An analysis of the urban forest in Houston, Texas, reveals that this area has an estimated 33.3 million live trees with tree canopy that covers 18.4 percent of the city. Roughly 19.2 million of the city’s trees are located on private lands. The most common tree species are yaupon, Chinese tallowtree, Chinese privet, Japanese privet, and sugarberry. Trees in Houston currently store about 2.0 million tons of carbon (7.5 million tons of carbon dioxide [CO2]); valued at $272 million. In addition, th...

Press Release 04/04/12
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The Arbor Day Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservation and education organization. A million members, donors, and partners support our programs to make our world greener and healthier. The Arbor Day Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservation and education organization. A million members, donors, and partners support our programs to make our world greener and healthier. Nearly 150 Colleges and Universities Receive Tree Campus USA Recognition, with Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota...