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Assessing the current range of social and ecological conditions present in a system is a key step in understanding and managing urban forested natural areas. In other words: What do you have? Where is it? How do residents interact with it?
11 Articles in this category

Distribution, Benefits, and Regulations of Baltimore’s Forest Patches

This white paper describes Baltimore’s forest patches, outlines their benefits, and discusses their treatment in current regulations. It then makes a series of policy recommendations to ensure that these “emerald assets” serve us for the long term. ...

Managing and Protecting the Richmond Pine Rockland Tract in Miami-Dade County, South Florida

Pine rockland is a globally critically imperiled ecosystem limited to the southern tip of Florida and nearby islands. Miami’s Richmond tract contains the largest American assemblage of pine rockland species. Competing interests challenge management ...

Plant Community Assessment and Management Recommendations for Minneapolis Park Natural Areas

In 2017 the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) began a two-phase study to collect quantitative and qualitative data for urban park natural areas in Minneapolis, MN parks to inform management activities. The first phase took existing GIS da...

Assessing Houston's Forested Habitat

The City of Houston has a total of 380 parks totaling 35,742 acres. Approximately 16,000 of those acres are forested habitat, each totaling over an acre in size. A method for prioritizing and assessing these areas was first established in 2017 to de...

Advancing Urban Ecosystem Governance in New York City

New York City’s extensive municipal park system is home to forests, wetlands, and grasslands that provide important ecological and social benefits to the city’s population. While efforts and programs exist to restore and protect these spaces, manage...

Prioritization and Planning to Improve Urban Tree Health in the Chicago Region

A Chicago regional urban forest study published in 2013 provided a broad overview of the urban forest, yet provided little direction for specific work and prioritization. To fill this gap, The Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI) has collected one...

Houston-Galveston Area Urban Forestry Online Tool

This suite of online, publicly accessible spatial data tools helps support local Houston-Galveston area governments and partners by providing spatial analysis capacity for land cover, urban forest canopy, conservation projects, flood mitigation, imp...

Defining and Assessing Urban Forests to Inform Management and Policy

Not all trees in the city are the same, yet current definitions of the urban forest include all trees growing in the urban environment. Such broad assessments may aggregate types of urban forest that differ significantly in usage and management need...

City-Wide Assessment of New York City's Forests

Cities across the globe are increasingly focused on increasing tree cover as a way to improve the urban environment. Because of the well-known connection between nonnative invasive species and urbanized areas, there is an expectation that urban fore...

City of Snoqualmie Natural Infrastructure Assessment

The Snoqualmie Natural Infrastructure Assessment establishes the stormwater retention, water quality and climate stability values of Snoqualmie’s urban forest. Using geographically referenced land cover and a proven Ecosystem Service Valuation metho...

Citywide Social Assessment of New York City Parks and Natural Areas in 2013-2014

In 2001, the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks) Natural Resources Group created the Forever Wild Program to protect nearly 9,000 acres of forests, wetlands, and  meadows citywide. Although these areas were set aside over a de...
The Forests in Cities Network is a national network dedicated to promoting and advancing healthy forested natural areas in cities across America through science, management, partnerships, and communications. The Forests in Cities Network was created in 2019 by the Natural Areas Conservancy.
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