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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.
            16 Articles in this category

              NYC Forest Assessment 2.0 Protocol and Materials

              This document provides a standardized field protocol for sampling urban forested natural areas using a fixed-area plot design. The method emphasizes data collection on plant species composition and abundance across all forest layers, as well as down...

              Partnering for Pathogen Free Plants: Joining Forces to Keep Plants Healthy in the City of Tacoma Plant Holding Facility

              Partnerships between cities and universities can help overcome the challenges of producing healthy plants free of pests and pathogens for urban planting and restoration. In Tacoma, a partnership with researchers from Washington State University (WSU...

              Applying Asset Management Principles to Urban Natural Areas in Portland

              Portland, Oregon’s Parks & Recreation Bureau has developed a protocol to assess our managed natural areas using an asset management framework. We utilized traditional asset management best practices to create a rapid, actionable protocol that al...

              Developing a Protocol for Assessing Natural Area Function in Portland, Oregon

              The Revegetation Program at the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services aims to use active adaptive management to steward natural areas in our portfolio, but we have lacked an adequate monitoring protocol to effectively implement this appr...

              Aggregated Methods for Calculating Tree Carbon Stock and Sequestration Rate, and Soil Carbon Stock from Field Collected Fixed Radius Plot Data

              This document summarizes methods for calculating living and dead tree carbon stock density (Mg C/ha-1), soil carbon stock density (Mg C/ha-1), and annual modeled live tree carbon sequestration rates (Mg C/ha-1/yr-1) in forests using stem data collec...

              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

              *There is an updated version of this protocol here: NYC Forest Assessment 2.0 Protocol and Materials This resource provides the field protocol for sampling the upland forest of New York City's urban forested natural areas. Included are metrics fo...

              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 bene...
              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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