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      Protocols and Methodologies
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          Protocols and Methodologies

          Meaningful, rigorous data is a critical component of urban natural areas management. Here, find the protocols other cities across the United States use to measure their natural areas.
          11 Articles in this category

            Green Seattle Partnership Inventory Protocol

            The Green Seattle Partnership, a collaborative group including the city of Seattle, local nonprofit groups, and volunteers, has instituted a set of standardized inventory protocols to understand the condition of forested parklands under its stewards...

            Insights and Suggestions for Certified Prescribed Burn Manager Programs

            Prescribed burning is a centuries-old land management tool in which fire is applied to predetermined areas of land to prevent wildfires, control plant diseases, restore ecosystems, and clear downed trees. In the United States, 21 states allow prescr...

            Green Seattle Partnership Crew Work Specifications

            This document is a compilation of best management practices to be used while carrying out Green Seattle Partnership restoration activities on properties managed by Seattle Parks and Recreation or on public lands in the City of Seattle where work is ...

            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 ...

            Monitoring Data Collection Methods in the Urbanized Pacific Northwest

            The Green City Partnerships are public-private ventures between local municipalities (parks departments, public works, utilities, and other government agencies), community groups, and Forterra. In order to understand the success, value, and effect...

            Upland and Forest Ecological Assessment Protocol for New York City

            This resource provides the field protocol for sampling the upland forest of New York City's urban forested natural areas. Included are metrics for sampling forest structural layers, including the soil, forest floor, coarse woody material, herbaceous...

            Assessing Urban Forest Patch Health: A Protocol from Baltimore

            This forest health protocol was developed by Baltimore Greenspace for use in the many forest patches across the city. Designed to understand a series of baseline environmental measures, using this protocol will provide a snapshot of forest health th...

            Guide to Implementing Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP)

            STEW-MAP (Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project) is an effort to map the local environmental groups and stewardship organizations in a city, showing the geography, size, budget, and scale of a group's work. The STEW-MAP tool enables practitione...

            Rapid Site Assessment Manual for NYC Forests

            The Rapid Site Assessment (RSA) is a forest assessment methodology that was developed as part of the Forest Management Framework (FMF) for New York City; its central focus is characterization of ecosystem threat levels at a site to inform management...

            Assessing invasive plant species in Louisville’s Urban Forest

            Within Louisville, KY's network of urban green space and forests, invasive plant management is vital to protecting biodiversity and allowing native species to thrive. Partners across the city have been working to identify non-native invasive species...

            Cooling Study Methods

            This resource provides data collection methods for a study to learn more about the cooling potential of different types of greenspace, including different classes of natural areas. It answers the following research questions:  Do cooling benefits ...
            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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