The Cross-Pollinator
Planting the Future:
Managing Urban Forests
for Climate Change
In its second edition, the USDA
Forest Service publication The Cross-
Pollinator focuses on the scientists
and practitioners working together to
assess adaptive strategies to climate
change. In the Minneapolis-St. Paul
metropolitan area, exploratory silvi-
cultural applications will be tested in
a Mississippi River urban floodplain
forest to study best practices in these
important habitat and buffer zones.
The publication, above video, and
related resources can be found here.
Urban Forest Strike Team
New Video from Ohio UFST
The USDA Forest Service has developed a
response protocol to support communities
in their recovery after storms. Last year
was a busy year for storms, and the Ohio
Division of Forestry recently produced a
video that explains the process and its
value as applied in response to a tornado
in the Beavercreek and Dayton, Ohio areas.
New U.S. Forest
Service Resources
10 CityTREES
Mississippi Park Connection Environmental Stewardship
and Volunteer Manager Mary Hammes speaks on the
applied research underway in the Mississippi River urban
floodplain forest in greater Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Ohio DNR Urban Forester and Urban Forest Strike
Team Member Lola Lewis speaking in the new video
on what makes the UFST so valuable to communities
in the earliest stage of storm recovery.
