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      Stewardship, Volunteers, and Community Engagement
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          Stewardship, Volunteers, and Community Engagement

          This theme focuses on organizing and community engagement of residents and partners to care for and steward forests in cities.
          11 Articles in this category

            Baltimore City Non-native Invasive Plant Removal Guide

            This guide provides a starting point for citizens to identify and safely remove invasive plants from their local forest patches. In a nutshell, this resource offers: Pictures, descriptions, and guidelines for removal of some of the most common no...

            Engaging New York City Volunteer Stewards Through Shifting Forest Management Goals

            The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks) manages 7,300-acres of natural area forests by hands-on work of professional staff and volunteer stewards. Through NYC Parks’ Stewardship program, trained staff engage over 8,000 volunte...

            Forest Patch First Aid: A Guide for Volunteer Forest Stewardship in Baltimore

            Forest Patch First Aid is a comprehensive user guide for neighborhoods and communities to identify and care for Baltimore's forested areas. Inspired by Baltimore Green Space forest stewards and previous restorative work conducted in Baltimore's fore...

            Green Seattle Partnership Forest Steward Field Guide

            The Green Seattle Partnership is tasked with restoring and stewarding all 2,751 acres of forested natural areas in Seattle, working in partnership with parks department staff, contractors, nonprofits, and volunteers. This Field Guide is a quick refe...

            Natural Areas Program and Interagency Environmental Education in Billings, Montana

            Billings, MT was established in 1882 concurrent with the newly arrived railroad, which displaced the Yellowstone River as the area’s economic engine. For a century, Billings was dominated by ranching, agriculture, mining and refining. As the only ma...

            Leadership Learning Communities, Scientific Sustenance, and Adventures in Inspiration Feedback Loops in Baltimore, Maryland

            In 2012, three groups of neighbors from different Baltimore, MD communities reached out individually for assistance in cleaning up, protecting, and/or improving their community forests. In response, Baltimore Green Space (BGS) launched the forest st...

            Aligning City Forest Management by Engaging Community Partners in New York City

            New York City contains 10,000 acres of forested natural areas, 8.5 million residents, and dozens of organizations dedicated to improving the condition of natural areas. The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) manages the maj...

            Trail Maintainer Handbook for Natural Areas in NYC

            New York City is home to more than 20,000 acres of natural areas—forests, wetlands, and grasslands—and 10,000 of those acres are in city parks. Within NYC Parks’ natural areas, there are over 350 miles of formal and informal nature trails. This trai...

            Civic Environmental Stewardship: Aligning Organizational and Participant Motivations

            This article details the results of a survey of 165 volunteers attending natural areas stewardship events in the Seattle region with the goal of understanding volunteers’ motivations, satisfactions, and volunteering history. Researchers found that v...

            Leveraging Community Support to De-Vine New Haven's Natural Areas

            This case study discusses the Urban Resources Initiative’s efforts to remove invasive vines from natural areas in New Haven, CT. The Urban Resources Initiative (URI) is the primary urban forestry organization in New Haven, and community engagement i...

            Langdon Park Forest Patch: How three women turned their tree rescue efforts into a public-private partnership in community- based forest stewardship

            Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, community tree activists engaged in tree rescue activities in Washington, D.C.’s Langdon Park. They cleared non-native invasive vines and cataloged native tree species within the park’s 2.2-acre forest patch. Over the...
            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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