Webinar: Tree equity for climate and health-state and local applications
Overview of American Forests Tree Equity Score, Tree Equity Score Analyzer and how state and local partners are using the tools with communities in Rhode Island.
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Tree Equity Score Mapping Tool
New national map tool links tree canopy, health and equity data at neighborhood scale.
Webinar: Millions, Billions, Trillions: Do you have the tools to keep new trees alive?
Overview of the Healthy Trees Healthy Cities initiative and free tree app for volunteers.
New Trees & Schools Guide for Chesapeake Communities
The new guide for Chesapeake communities entitled Trees and Schools: Growing the Connection compiles information and resources to help educators and communities implement tree canopy initiatives.
Relief From the Heat: In Rapidly Warming Cities, Trees Can Save Lives
New analyses explore the relationship between historic urban planning practices and how different urban neighborhoods experience extreme heat.
DC: Planting for the Climate of the Future: Washington, D.C.’s Efforts to Counter Urban Heat Islands
The District of Columbia’s Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) and Department of Transportation (DDOT) comprehensive heat policy.
Trees & Health Webinar Roundup
As tree lovers and champions, we are fortunate to have an ever-growing collection of urban forestry webinar series and archives to keep expanding our knowledge base, and to share with newcomers to the field. In … Read More
Making the Connection between Trees and Public Health through Park Rx
Park Rx America is about getting healthcare providers to write medical prescriptions to visit parks and natural areas. The concept is to leverage the trust-filled relationship between patient and doctor to get the patient outside in a nature-rich environment.
Maryland: Trees, Veterans, and Public Health
The Maryland Forest Service works with a range of veterans facilities to plant trees and utilize the health benefits trees provide. One facility, Perry Point VA Medical Center, became the first recognized Arbor Day Foundation Tree Campus in Healthcare.
Association of Nature & Forest Therapy Guides & Programs
The Global Leaders in Forest Therapy Guide Training
Transforming Relationships between Humans and Nature.
Tree Campus Healthcare
A program of the Arbor Day Foundation recognizing, “health institutions that make a mission-aligned impact on community wellness through tree education, investment, and community engagement.”
Healthy Trees, Healthy Lives
The Southern Group of State Foresters bring stories, resources, and information into this engaging website on the benefits of healthy trees and urban forests.
Baltimore: Reclaiming wood, lives and communities
The Baltimore Wood Project created a framework to be more thoughtful about urban wood “waste” in the city. With new partners and ideas, they modeled a regional economy around wood and land restoration.
DC: DDOT Launches Urban Wood Utilization Program
The District’s Urban Forestry Division opened a new milling operation to recycle District-owned trees for use as benches and chairs in public schools. All while teaching students about the lifecycle of trees.
Virginia: A Statewide Approach to Promoting Urban Wood Use
The Virginia Urban Wood Group is a state-wide effort seeking to promote greater urban wood use across the Commonwealth through improved marketing and utilization.
Columbia, PA: Leveraging Memberships and Donations to Finance Trees
To increase its tree canopy by 7 percent the town of Columbia is improving local ordinances and policies and developing outreach and education strategies that generate additional support for tree plantings.
Charlottesville, VA: Meeting Tree Maintenance and Management Needs with a Capital Improvement Plan
To maximize tree canopy in its neighborhoods, Charlottesville’s in-depth plan provides an effective method for consistent funding and tree maintenance.
Funding Your Urban Forest Program: A Guide for New and Seasoned City Foresters
This article provides a good starting point for identifying local funding strategies for communities to make progress on tree canopy goals.
Montgomery County, MD: Generating Revenue and Mitigating Tree Canopy Loss
Montgomery County is enhancing its tree canopy and mitigating environmental impacts of development with new legislation.
Webinar: i-Tree Landscape
Learn how to use the i-Tree Landscape tool which combines ecosystem services calculations, demographic data and high resolution tree canopy data for the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Chesapeake High-Res Land Cover Data
Learn about and download high resolution land cover data (2013), including tree canopy, produced by the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership for the entire watershed.
Video: Intro to Urban Tree Canopy Assessments
Short video with helpful graphics illustrating the purpose and value of UTC assessments
DC: Using leading edge tools to manage our Capital’s canopy
DC has created a suite of applications and is producing a tree inventory to engage the public in tree stewardship and ensure an enduring canopy.
Baltimore: First urban tree canopy change analysis completed
A recent UTC change analysis of Baltimore, Maryland, showed that tree cover in the city increased from 27 to 28 percent over an eight-year period.
Delaware: State develops Community Tree Canopy Online Tool
The State of Delaware has taken the initiative to make high-resolution imagery more accessible by creating the Community Tree Canopy online tool.
PATreeMap – 40,700 trees and counting!
The Pennsylvania Community Tree Map (PATreeMap) is a free, online cloud-based mapping tool for conducting and storing tree inventories at the local level.
WV: Cacapon Institute’s tree canopy efforts earn national award
Congratulations to the Cacapon Institute, long-standing champion of trees in the watershed’s West Virginia headwaters, on receiving a national Arbor Day Foundation Award!
Maryland Urban & Community Forestry Summit
On Friday, May 11th, 2018, the Maryland Urban & Community Forestry Summit was held at the Patuxent Research Refuge National Wildlife Visitor Center.
Edmonston, MD: Small town found ways to turn its streets green
A Green Street project in Edmonston, MD, mobilized volunteers, made traffic safer and reduced flooding and pollution. Now, an ‘edible forest’ lets residents literally experience the fruit of their labors.
Teaching with i-Tree Guide Released
Project Learning Tree has published a new set of activities designed to engage middle and high school students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) as they calculate the economic and environmental benefits of trees. … Read More
Research: Urban Nature for Human Health and Well Being
A comprehensive review of research studies that demonstrate the impact of urban forests and green space on human physical and mental health.
Developing a New Resource on Sustainable Funding Strategies for Local Tree Canopy
A new effort to create a guide for Chesapeake communities on sustainable funding strategies for urban tree canopy implementation.
Vibrant Cities Lab: new national go-to resource for urban forests
A State-of-the-Art Platform to Help City Leaders Harness Urban Forests.
Trees for All: Chesapeake Regional Environmental Justice Workshop
Trees for All: Chesapeake Regional Environmental Justice Workshop is part of the 3-year Growing Tree Canopy through Environmental Justice Project.
Celebrating our Tree City Communities
Nationwide, over 3,400 towns have received their Tree City USA recognition and take pride in this distinction. In the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, there were over 130 recognized towns and cities recognized by this program in 2016.
