Webinar: A New Road to Funding Urban Forestry Projects
A New Road to Funding Urban Forestry Projects through Carbon Credit Generation.
Maya Claggett
Funding Action Guide
Urban Forestry Funding Action Guide from Vibrant Cities Lab.
Online Course: Funding Urban Forestry Programs
Courses from the Municipal Online Stormwater Training Center on Urban Forestry funding.
Webinar: Creating Equitable Career Pathways in Urban Forestry
A webinar on efforts to address equity within urban forestry, and build the capacity of urban forestry pre-employment programs.
Webinar: Communitree: A Model for Engaging Communities in Tree Planting & Maintenance
Full webinar for CommuniTree: A Model for Engaging Communities in Tree Planting and Maintenance Projects.
Tree Benefits Labels
An i-Tree public awareness product, that can provide the value and function of trees growing in a community.
Webinar: Tracking Long-term Tree Survival, Growth & Health
A webinar on new standard protocols and effective strategies for tree data collection to support adaptive management.
Virginia Tree Ordinances Database
Provides citizens, professionals, and elected officials with information they can use to craft tree ordinances for their communities.
Healthy Trees Healthy Cities App
Learn how you can support trees where you live, work, and play using the Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities Mobile app.
Webinar: Addressing Loss of Tree Cover in Urban Watersheds
Full webinar for Addressing Loss of Tree Cover in Urban Watersheds: The Importance of Local Codes and Policies.
EAB Information Network
A multinational effort to bring you the latest information about emerald ash borer.
Trees Count
Free urban trees inventory app now available on iTunes and Google Play.
Urban Forest Assessments Resource Guide
Urban forest assessments are a key tool to help quantify the benefits
that trees and urban forests provide, advancing our understanding of these valuable resources.
Strategic Green Infrastructure Planning
Developing strategies for protecting and conserving ecological and cultural assets through environmentally-sensitive decisions, lifestyles, and planning.
Chesapeake Sustainable Schools List for Viewing
The Sustainable Schools list is an appendix of schools within the watershed that have received recognized Green School Certification as of 2017.
Webinar: Rx for Hot Cities
Rx for Hot Cities: Urban Greening and Cooling to Reduce Heat-Related Mortality in Los Angeles and Beyond.
Urban Heat Islands
The use of trees and vegetation in the urban environment brings many benefits, including the mitigation of urban heat islands.
Heat, Health & Trees Session
This session features cutting-edge heat mapping and resiliency planning initiatives from Dr. Jeremy Hoffman and Melissa Deas, complemented by a seasoned community engagement perspective from Baltimore Tree Trust.
Climate & Health Action Guide
This action guide is designed to help promote human health and climate benefits of urban forests in communities while minimizing risks from climate change.
Tree Campus Healthcare Program
This program recognizes health institutions that make a mission-aligned impact on community wellness through tree education, investment, and community engagement.
Planting Healthy Air
This report from The Nature Conservancy quantifies the health benefits of trees for 245 cities globally.
Chesapeake DEIJ Resources
The Diversity Workgroup is tasked with meeting the Diversity Outcome of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.
Career Pathways Action Guide
Achieving Tree Equity through urban forestry jobs training.
Webinar: Redlining’s Intensifying Harm
A webinar on redlining and the current day implications on the distribution of tree canopy, extreme urban heat, and the quality of life. As well as how residents are working to overcome it.
Urban Wood Use Action Guide
A guide on using recovered and fresh-cut urban wood to build and sustain vibrant communities. Laid out in four different phases that cover the why, how, goals, and returns of urban wood use.
Tree Equity Case Study: Oakland, CA
Founded in alignment with the principles of environmental justice, Urban Releaf’s work to improve Oakland’s tree canopy has had local and regional impacts on community resilience.
Tree Equity Case Study: Detroit, MI
The Greening of Detroit has overseen the planting and maintenance of more than 130,000 trees for the health, wealth, and resilience of Detroit neighborhoods.
Tree Equity Case Study: New Jersey
Since 1998, The New Jersey Tree Foundation has put community residents at the center of their mission to increase tree canopy in underserved, overburdened, and marginalized neighborhoods.
Tree Equity Case Study: Portland, OR
The City of Portland used data and city resources to plan for Tree Equity, working to prioritize equitable access to trees and urban forest services for communities of color, including low-income, refugee, and immigrant communities.
Baltimore Tree Trust: Doing More Together
Baltimore’s lead tree-planting partner, The Baltimore Tree Trust, works to restore Tree Equity by increasing canopy cover in neighborhoods. They built community trust through word-of-mouth, informing tree planting and maintenance, one neighborhood at a time.
Financing Urban Tree Canopy Programs
This guidebook covers strategies to fund a local urban forestry program, funding sources, and opportunities to reduce program costs. From the University of Maryland and Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.
Webinar: Reforestation
Part 1 of Chesapeake Stormwater Network’s “Roots” series looks at reforestation programs designed to convert turf to forest through larger-scale plantings, featuring Frederick County’s Creek ReLeaf Program and Baltimore County’s Turf to Trees Program.
Webinar: Big Trees, Small Spaces
Part 2 of Chesapeake Stormwater Network’s “Roots” series focuses on, we are the “design” challenges of planting trees in confined urban spaces, including constraints and best practices for good tree growth and survival.
Webinar: Finding the Right Tree BMP
Part 3 of Chesapeake Stormwater Network’s “Roots” series gets into the details of the different tree BMPs that you can use for Chesapeake Bay TMDL credit: Tree Canopy Expansion, Forest Planting, and Riparian Buffer Plantings.
GIC’s Trees to Offset Stormwater Project
The Green Infrastructure Center joined with six states – VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, and AL – to study how urban trees mitigate stormwater runoff. A summary report, individual case study booklets, and planning tools are provided.
Accounting for Trees in Stormwater Models
This paper is intended to help the stormwater engineering community more easily account for trees in runoff and pollutant load calculations so that they can more readily incorporate them into their stormwater management strategies.
Urban Forest Systems and Green Stormwater Infrastructure
This publication focuses on the effects of trees on urban stormwater runoff, provides helpful urban forest management strategies to maximize stormwater benefits, and demonstrates several examples around the US where the stormwater benefits of urban trees are credited for reducing stormwater volume and pollutant loading.
Plant a Tree!
A set of Project Learning Tree STEM curricula to accompany tree plantings.
Funding Opportunities
From Bay Backpack, for environmental education in the Chesapeake watershed.
Curriculum Offerings
Project Learning Trees curriculum offerings are for students of all ages to gain awareness, knowledge, and avenues for environmental action.
