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title: "Guidelines for Urban Forest Restoration in New York City"
slug: "guidelines-for-urban-forest-restoration"
tags: ["urban forested natural area", "restoration", "new york city", "urban forest restoration", "urban ecology", "framework"]
updated: 2022-01-12T21:49:38Z
published: 2022-01-12T21:49:38Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Guidelines for Urban Forest Restoration in New York City

This book is an accessible and comprehensive review of forest restoration in New York’s parks from conception through execution to long-term management. A generous selection of carefully selected color photographs, drawings, charts, and timelines complement the text. Maps pinpoint project locations.

### In a nutshell, this resource offers:

- Background and context of forest restoration in New York City, with an emphasis on the special challenges faced by wooded urban ecosystems.
- A justification of the importance of active management and restoration in New York City's natural areas.
- An examination of the processes of selecting, assessing, and inventorying sites, designing the restorations, and planning for their implementation.
- A case study of restoration efforts at Givans Creek Woods in the Bronx.

### How to use this resource:

- As a guide to establishing restoration goals, reviewing opportunities and constraints, and assessing, evaluating, and prioritizing sites in the field.
- As a guide to establishing the principle components of site preparation that include site protection, invasive plant management, site clearing, and soil preparation.
- As a guide with illustrations of manual methods to control invasive plants, appendices that include federal, state, and city regulations that may apply to forest restoration projects in New York City.
- As a general overview of common forest communities of New York City and surroundings.

**Authors:**Katerli Bounds, Michael Feller, Jennifer Greenfeld, Minona Heaviland, Clara Pregitzer, Tim Wenskus

**Date published:**2014

**P****oint of contact:**[New York City Parks Department](http://www.nycgovparks.org)

**Citation:**Bounds, K., Feller, M. J., Greenfeld, J., Heaviland, M., Pregitzer, C., Wenskus, T., Gunther, B., Johnson, L., King, K., Lu, J., Naidich, M., Pehek, E., Simmons, B., Stanley, S. & Toth, E. 2014. *Guidelines for Urban Forest Restoration*. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. New York, NY.

[Resource is available online here.](https://www.nycgovparks.org/pagefiles/84/guidelines-to-urban-forest-restoration.pdf)

[PDF document](https://cdn.document360.io/18a9acd7-787d-47fa-9b54-01592bb1d507/Images/Documentation/guidelines-to-urban-forest-restoration.pdf)

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## Related

- [Forest Management Framework for New York City](/forest-management-framework-for-new-york-city.md)
- [Assessing Urban Forest Patch Health: A Protocol from Baltimore](/assessing-urban-forest-health-protocol-baltimore.md)