Full Collection of UCFS Case Studies
Available on the Website!
UCFS Case Studies—all 37 of them—are an enduring,
excellent resource! Each case study contains detailed
advice and anecdotes from an average of 7 or 8
urban and community forestry professionals.
The case study themes to date are:
Bees, Bioswales, Building Bridges Between LAs and MAs,
Building Bridges with City Depts, Cemeteries, Climate Change,
Conifers, Consulting, Contract Growing Partnerships, Drought,
EAB, Fall Planting, Flooding, Gas Lines and Trees, Historic Trees,
Invasives, Large Tree Relocation, Medians, Memorial Trees,
Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, Palms, Pruning Cycles, Pyrus
We Have a Problem, Retired from the Municipality, Sewer
Lines, Slopes, Social Networking, Stormwater and Watersheds,
Teaching, Tree Boards, Tree Lights, Urban Forestry's Location in
City Departments, Urban Fruit Trees, Urban Wood (x 2), Zoos.
Bees, Zoos, and Everything In-Between:
New USFS Resources
The new Oakland Urban Forest
Plan is a model that positions the
city for success in maintaining
and expanding its tree canopy
cover for all city residents.
A new School Tree Study evaluates
tree benefits and care in California,
and now includes a completed policy
report on Depaving Schools, and a
StoryMap on transforming school
grounds from gray to green.
A new article in Ecosphere on Aligning
urban forest management actions with
urban sustainability goals elevates the
role of urban and community foresters.
Forest Service releases Silvics of North
American tree species as a search-
able database for the first time:
https://research.fs.usda.gov/silvics
Baltimore's Camp Small is the city's
urban wood recycling center focused on
Zero Waste. A video about the 5-acre
wood yard tells its million dollar story.
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