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.
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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.
PA Community Tree Map
This tool gives Pennsylvania communities the ability to conduct tree inventories, monitoring activities, and urban tree canopy analyses, as well as track tree maintenance and stewardship activities. View webinar to learn how to use it.
The Sustainable Urban Forest: A Step-by-Step Approach
This handbook is designed to help urban forest managers assess their urban forest, identify issues and opportunities, and chart a path toward long-term sustainability.
Preserving Trees in Development Projects
This publication by the Penn State Extension details how preconstruction activities, tree inventories, repairing tree injury, and post-construction activities can help preserve trees in development projects.
Chesapeake Urban Tree Canopy Summit
At the Chesapeake Urban Tree Canopy Summit, policy makers, program managers and local tree advocates gathered to develop a management strategy and state action plans to meet the urban tree canopy goal in the Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
My Tree – Our Forest® Tree Tags
Sets of tree tags promoting tree benefits, available for purchase as part of the National Association of State Foresters “My Tree-Our Forest” campaign.
Delaware Chesapeake Bay Tree Planting Grants
Delaware Forest Service offers tree planting grants to communities within the Chesapeake Bay watershed portion of the state.
Delaware Urban and Community Forestry Grants
Through a federal grant, the Delaware Forest Service offers up to $40,000 each year to communities throughout the state for tree planting, tree care, and tree management projects on publicly owned lands.
Chesapeake Bay Trust Grants
The Trust’s grant-making strategies are shaped by three core objectives; environmental education, demonstration-based restoration, and community engagement.
Maryland Urban and Community Forestry Committee Grants
The Maryland Urban and Community Forestry Committee Grants program helps community groups fund tree planting and education projects on public lands in parks, metropolitan areas, cities or towns.
Tree-Mendous Maryland
TREE-MENDOUS MARYLAND, a program of the Maryland Forest Service, remains one of our most popular programs aimed at helping citizens restore tree cover on public land and community open space in Maryland.
Marylanders Plant Trees
Marylanders Plant Trees was launched to encourage citizens and organizations to partner with the State to plant new trees and gives citizens $25 off the purchase of a native tree at 86 participating nurseries across the State.
