Strategic Green Infrastructure Planning
Developing strategies for protecting and conserving ecological and cultural assets through environmentally-sensitive decisions, lifestyles, and planning.
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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.
Richmond, VA: An Urban Forestry Collaborative Plants Deep Community Roots
Engaging a community before and after trees are planted is a difficult task, but an urban forestry collaborative working in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia offers a solution.
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.
Green Schoolyards Resource Hub
Resources on how to implement green schoolyards and teach outdoors from the Children and Nature Network.
Bay Backpack- Forestry
Free Chesapeake Bay related resources and support for Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences and hands-on learning.
Tree Campus k-12 Learning Hub
A tree-centric database from the Arbor Day Foundation containing different environmental curriculum for all ages, subjects, and budgets.
Delaware Tree Stewards
Launched in fall 2020, the Delaware Tree Stewards training program connects Delawareans to their landscapes through the acts of planting and caring for trees.
EcoSchools Program
The Learning about Forestry Pathway is a blueprint for schools to increase tree cover. It includes resources, audits, checklists, and curricula.
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.”
