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.
Why Tree Canopy?
Tree Equity Score Mapping Tool
New national map tool links tree canopy, health and equity data at neighborhood scale.
Incorporating Forestry into Stormwater Management Programs
Comprehensive research report and companion tools for water utilities and stormwater managers, funded by the Water Research Foundation
Research Highlight: Gravel Bed Tree BMP
Research project examines gravel bed tree BMP performance
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Video: Urban Forest Benefits
This Forest Fast Break video gives a quick (under 2 minutes!) and engaging intro to urban forest benefits. See also their excellent introductory video on Urban Forests.
Green Cities: Good Health – Research Findings
This web site provides an overview of the scientific evidence of human health and well-being benefits provided by urban forestry and urban greening.
