New U.S. Forest Service Resources
Urban Tree Monitoring: Tips, Strategies, and Best Practices
The U.S. Forest Service has released a compilation of tools and videos
described in Issue 6 of The Cross-Pollinator, a science synthesis publica-
tion produced by its Urban Forest Technology and Science Delivery Team.
Our readers will find value in seeing the complete toolkit in one place,
designed to help municipal arborists and urban forestry professionals track
mortality, growth, and health of the trees that they plant and manage.
From the Vibrant Cities Lab: Tree Planning and Planting
Campaigns: A Guide for Reforesting Cities and Towns
This new publication produced in collaboration with the Green Infrastructure
Center provides technical resources and case studies supporting retention of trees
and tree planting across all lands in communities, with particular focus on private
lands where the most opportunity resides for sustaining local tree canopy cover.
SMA thanks our Urban and Community Forestry
partners at the U.S. Forest Service for providing
support and funding for diversity scholarships
for the 2021 and 2022 Municipal Forestry
Institute classes and for supporting the SMA
Diversity in Mentoring program. Thank you!
New Tree Canopy Assessment Tool
The i-Tree team at the U.S. Forest Service and Davey Tree Care Company has
released the OurTrees online tool that enables users to see their community
tree canopy and benefits with one click. Once users enter their community name
from anywhere in the contiguous U.S., they will see all of their estimated canopy
cover, carbon dioxide, air pollution and stormwater benefits. Additional data
tabs provide informative equivalents to help users tell the story, as well as avail-
able community census, diversity, and income information, to help drive home
the importance of the work ahead. The full suite of available tools for research,
planning, management, education, and awareness building can be found here.
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