DE: Delaware Commits to Planting and Maintaining Trees in the State
Delaware leadership sets ambitious goals to plant and care for trees.
Community Spotlight
MD: Planting the Future – Accelerating Tree Planting Across Central Maryland
A new partnership project of the Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition aims to triple the rate of tree planting across central Maryland.
PA: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership
The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership is a multi-year effort designed to spark governmental action, public attention, and funding to rally efforts around Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint.
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.
PA: Connecting Schools with Riparian Forest Buffers
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay supports tree planting initiatives on school and college campuses in Pennsylvania.
WV: Engaging Students in Growing Native
Growing Native program works with schools to grow out seedlings for successful school and community plantings.
MD: Successful county turf-to-trees programs
Learn about two Maryland counties leading the way in large-scale reforestation projects on residential properties.
PA: Lawn conversion program aims to reforest communities
Partners in Pennsylvania are ramping up urban forest planting BMPs on lawns towards meeting Chesapeake TMDL goals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pennsylvania: Communities use Data Strategy to Combat EAB
In Pennsylvania, the state equips communities affected by Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) with the capacity and tools needed to gather data on their EAB infestation and ash trees.
Delaware: Greening through Grants
Delaware’s Urban and Community Forestry Program is raising the standard when it comes to engaging diverse constituents in tree planting and care.
Fredericksburg, VA: Volunteer Engagement for Success
Tree Fredericksburg reveals a fantastic community tree model for smaller cities and towns to follow, laying out a wonderful example of local collaboration, team-building, and change.
West Virginia: Increasing Tree Canopy at Schools
The Cacapon Institute is taking on projects to increase tree canopy at schools in West Virginia.
Baltimore, MD: Reaching New Audiences
TreeBaltimore is Baltimore’s program for the coordination of all tree plantings by city agencies, nonprofit organizations, neighborhoods, and community associations.
Cumberland, MD: Social Marketing and Outreach for Trees on Yards
The Get Rooted in Cumberland Program utilized a social marketing approach to determine the perceived tree planting benefits and barriers to spark more community support of tree canopy.
DC: Canopy 3,000 Partnership
Canopy 3,000 is a short-term public–private partnership that will bolster efforts to increase the tree canopy in the nation’s capital.
Lancaster, PA: Trees for Green Infrastructure
Lancaster City in Pennsylvania serves as an exceptional example of a jurisdiction promoting tree canopy in an effort to augment green infrastructure and improve local water quality.
Virginia: Fostering Tree Stewards
Through proper tree planting and maintenance, outreach and public education, Virginia Tree Stewards serve as an example of how volunteers can help increase tree canopy in local communities.
