Urban Forests and
Green Stormwater
Infrastructure
The Forest Service has just produced
a new resource manual for municipal
arborists and urban foresters who are
seeking strategies to communicate
and maximize the stormwater bene-
fits of their work. Conceptual designs
for storm water treatment practices
utilizing trees can be found here.
Understanding i-Tree: Summary
of Programs and Methods
The Forest Service has released a new report that
provides details about the methods, calculations,
and limitations behind the i-Tree suite of computer
software tools. Developed through a collaborative
public-private partnership, the tools have been applied
by more than 400,000 users to assess and value the
urban forest resource, understand forest risk, and
develop sustainable forest management plans to
improve environmental quality and human health.
New U.S. Forest
Service Resources
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