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          Policy, Communications, and Advocacy

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            Austin Community Tree Report

            This interactive tree report uses data from the city of Austin's tree planting and urban forestry team to show the public where, when, how, and why trees are planted in their city. Webmaps, intuitive graphs, photos, and clear descriptions make this ...

            Protecting the Urban Forest Through Tree Preservation and Land Development Regulations in Austin, Texas

            The City of Austin has some of the most progressive urban forest and environmental land development regulations in the country. The City directly protects trees and forested natural areas through tree preservation ordinances and indirectly through d...

            Chicago Regional Trees Initiative Priority Map

            This interactive story map depicts the Chicago metro region. It combines layers of tree canopy cover, surface temperature, flood risk, air quality, vulnerable populations, and operational capacity to enable land managers to identify key challenges f...

            Tree Preservation Ordinance Templates

            These templates, provided by the Chicago Regional Trees Initiative, provide a starting place for drafting rules for tree protection at a municipal level. Though much of the suggested language refers to street trees, or individual trees on private pr...

            Preservation, Regulations, and Policy to Protect and Grow Baltimore's Forests

            Baltimore’s urban forest is vulnerable to development and infrastructure projects. This is particularly true for development projects small enough to avoid triggering any review or mitigation requirements, and for large scale projects where—even wit...

            Conservation Strategies for a Rare Ecosystem in Miami-Dade County

            Pine rocklands are a globally critically imperiled ecosystem with limited geographic range, characterized by a high biodiversity of endemic herbaceous plants and frequent fire intervals (2-5 years). In Miami-Dade County, approximately 2% of the fore...

            Baltimore City Supplement to the State Forest Conservation Manual

            The Maryland Forest Conservation Act was signed into law in 1991, creating development rules to minimize the loss of existing forests and replenish tree cover. The City of Baltimore has adopted local legislation in compliance with the State law, and...

            The Scientific Benefit of Trees for People: A Literature Review

            This short literature review provides 79 citations for the benefits of trees in the urban environment. This list of citations is not comprehensive, and does not contain citations that describe the potential drawbacks of trees, or tree inequities pos...

            Urban Forest Protection Strategy in Indianapolis

            This data-driven framework, coordinated by the Indiana Forest Alliance , identifies forested natural areas that are not protected, assesses their quality and establishes priorities for preserving high quality forests and forest cover in general. Th...

            Strategic Planning to Acquire and Manage Ecological Coordinators in Urbanizing Hillsborough County

            The Florida Legislature passed the 1985 Growth Management Act in response to sustained rapid development. The Act required development of comprehensive land use plans for every county within the state. The comprehensive plans were required to have g...

            Perpetual Protection for Atlanta's High-Quality Forested Land in the City

            Unlike most major U.S. cities, developed and industrialized decades earlier, Atlanta retains a large portion of its native and originally forested land with a high diversity of species, rare plants, and even old-growth trees. A 2008 baseline canopy ...

            Preserving Nature in New York City: NYC Parks' Forever Wild Program

            Urban biodiversity has increasingly been recognized as providing multiple local, regional, and even global benefits. In New York City (NYC), conservation and planning professionals in the Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) pursued biodiv...
            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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