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Innovations in Restoration and Management
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Innovations in Restoration and Management

How do assessment, planning, monitoring, DEI, and communications roll up into on-the-ground activities? This section contains case studies and examples of how urban forested natural areas management actually works.
11 Articles in this category

Restoration and Management of High-Use Urban Missouri Woodlands and Forests in St. Louis

St. Louis City’s urban woodland and forested natural areas were modified, degraded, and/or overly-mature habitats that required management intervention for ecological health, species diversity, and public safety. To accomplish long-term success in t...

Riparian Cottonwood Forest Restoration Along the Yellowstone River in Billings, Montana

Across Montana, dams curtail annual spring floods, depriving riparian cottonwood forests of the regenerative disturbance processes that sustain them. Invasive plant species further disrupt plant communities and ecosystem dynamics. Billings, MT lies ...

Green Seattle Partnership Models Regional Urban Natural Areas Restoration Efforts

The Green Seattle Partnership (GSP) was launched in 2005 to create a model for urban forest natural area restoration in the Puget Sound region of western Washington. To date, thirteen other municipalities and one county have adopted the Green City P...

Adapting Silvicultural Management Systems to Urban Forests

An important objective of forest science today is to better serve the cultural and recreational needs of a growing urban population. Forests are complex open systems with multiple functions and to maintain credibility among the public, people in cha...

Involving Ecologists in Shaping Large-Scale Green Infrastructure Projects

The article examines a large-scale green infrastructure project that integrates hypothesis-driven experimental research and baseline monitoring with park design, implementation, and maintenance. Drawing on this case study, the authors recommend str...

Advancing Management of Urban Forested Natural Areas: Toward an Urban Silviculture?

Cities worldwide are engaging in large-scale greening projects motivated by the wide range of documented ecological, economic, and social benefits of urban forests. Urban forested natural areas are a critical component of the total urban forest but ...

Silvicultural Restoration of Urban Oak Woodlands in the Chicago Metro Region

Throughout their global range, oak-dominated ecosystems have undergone state changes in stand structure and composition. Land managers face an especially acute challenge in restoring oak ecosystems and promoting oak regeneration in urban–exurban are...

Vegetation Monitoring and Professional Sharpshooting to Manage White-Tailed Deer in Indianapolis

High white-tailed deer abundance at Eagle Creek Park (ECP) in Indianapolis necessitated active management to improve park habitat conditions. Significant deer impacts on local natural areas were first noted in the late 1990’s. Multiple years of deer...

Urban Silviculture Guide

Silviculture, a holistic framework for managing forests that is widely used in rural areas, can also be used to manage forests in cities. This guide provides a brief introduction to silvicultural practice, and shows how it can be used to manage f...

Natural regeneration in urban forests is limited by early-establishment dynamics: implications for management

Urban forested natural areas are valuable ecological and social resources, but long-term sustainability of these habitats is challenged by environmental and social factors associated with urban ecosystems. In this study, we compare urban and rural o...

Factors driving natural regeneration beneath a planted urban forest

Cities around the world are investing in urban forest plantings as a form of green infrastructure. The aim is that these plantations will develop into naturally-regenerating native forest stands. However, woody plant recruitment is often cited as th...
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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