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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.
9 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...
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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