Download or read book Street Tree Inventory I an Inventory for Smaller Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modeling Street Trees on a Statewide Basis in New York State written by Frederick D. Cowett and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street trees are an integral component of livable, healthy communities providing ecosystem benefits and social and aesthetic amenities. Street tree inventory data provides detailed information about the structure and health of a street tree population and facilitates effective planning and management. Most communities lack an inventory, however, and the patchwork of data at the state level makes planning and management of urban and community forestry difficult for state officials. This dissertation proposes a methodology using street tree inventory data stratified and weighted by 1990 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone classes to estimate New York State's prevalent street tree species and genera, quantify statewide benefits provided by street trees, and identify statewide trends in the urban forest. Methods used are replicable by other states so officials in those states can obtain similar information. Based on this methodology, Acer was found to be New York State's most prevalent street tree genus and Acer platanoides its most prevalent street tree species. Street tree numbers were estimated for the most prevalent genera and species. Species diversity increased with milder climate, but was found to be insufficient statewide, suggesting vulnerability to invasive pests such as the Asian Longhorned Beetle and Emerald Ash Borer. Analysis of trunk diameter profiles indicated an aging street tree population statewide requiring an increase in new plantings to maintain street tree numbers at current levels. Statistics for the youngest trees revealed increased plantings of small sized tree species relative to plantings of large and medium sized tree species regardless of overhead utility wires and planting location types. Benefits provided per street tree as calculated by i-Tree software did not vary by 1990 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone class, but significant differences were found by zone class in the number of street trees planted per unit of street length . Subsequent to preliminary findings, a number of test street tree inventories were conducted to evaluate whether statistics and trends at the zone class level would be found for the test inventories also. Test inventory statistics did not agree completely with preliminary statistics, but did confirm differences and trends found at the zone class level.
Download or read book A Guide to Street Tree Inventory Software written by Gene A. Olig and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban and Community Forestry written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Computerized Street Tree Inventory System for Small Cities Using Lotus 1 2 3 written by Robert B. Warrick (Horticulturalist.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Community Forestry written by Craig William Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Forestry Master Planning for Rural Villages Using Handheld Computers to Conduct Street Tree Inventories written by David Swaciak and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide for Developing a Community Tree Management Program written by Minnesota. Urban & Community Forestry Program and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illinois Small Community Tree Programs written by Thomas L. Green and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Forestry written by Robert W. Miller and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated and greatly enhanced, the Third Edition of Urban Forestry addresses current issues in planning, establishing, and managing trees, forests, and other elements of nature in urban and community ecosystems. The authors discuss why we have trees in cities and how we use them, clarify the appraisal and inventory of urban vegetation, and extensively delve into the planning and management of public as well as private vegetation. As urban forestry continues to evolve as a profession, foresters and arborists can expect many challenges as well as opportunities. The continuing development of cities has become linked to a much greater emphasis on urban vegetation, the growing demand for recreation amenities within the urban environment, and the careful and successful management of vegetation in an urban ecosystem. New ways to incorporate the highly versatile urban forest resource into the urban fabric will undoubtedly benefit the lives of its residents.
Download or read book Urban Forests written by J. Blum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This new research compendium focuses on urban forestry research and management, while also considering the sociological and community aspects. The book looks at the benefits of urban forests with respect to urban sustainability and human health; issues related to expanding the urban tree canopy; managing urban forests in a community context; and improving our understanding of urban forests through research and practice.
Download or read book Watershed Street Tree Inventory written by Brendan Shanahan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performance Measurement in Local Sustainability Policy written by Susan M. Opp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local officials are responsible for a number of important tasks that have a significant impact on the quality of life of most Americans. Arguably, the policy choices made by local governments in the United States more directly impact individual well-being than do the choices made at any other level of government. From zoning decisions to the creation of parks and the maintenance of sidewalks and trails, local governments are largely responsible for direct services to the public and can provide the necessary tools and skills to create an attractive and vibrant community. And yet one area of significant importance for both individuals and for the country as a whole, local sustainability, is a relatively new policy area for many American municipalities. For example, how many local governments are adopting sustainability policies and plans? How are those initiatives performing? Without an honest and robust examination of both the effectiveness and the efficiency of local sustainability policies, the success of the entire sustainability movement in the United States is uncertain. This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of what constitutes local sustainability and why it matters. Focusing closely on environmental initiatives, economic development issues, and social equity concerns, each chapter offers both an account of the sustainability policies being adopted and a close exploration of the performance measurement activities of cities in that policy area. Readers are introduced to the metrics that American cities are using to measure the performance of their sustainability efforts, as well as benchmarks and comparison statistics that may be used to develop and evaluate the performance assessment efforts in their own sustainability programs. Students of public administration, urban planning, and political science – as well as public officials – will find this book useful to understand the complexity of sustainability and local government.
Download or read book Developing a Street and Park Tree Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban and Community Forestry Accomplishment Report FY 2003 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Tree Risk Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast written by John E. Kuser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the emergence of urban and community forestry as the fastest growing part of our pro fession in the last 15 years, the need for a book such as this inevitably developed. The So ciety of American Foresters' urban forestry working group counts 32 or more universities now offering courses in this subject, and the number is growing. For the last several years I have coordinated a continuing education urban forestry course at Rutgers for nonmatriculated students. Registrants have included arborists, shade tree commissioners, landscape architects, city foresters, environmental commissioners, park superintendents, and others whose jobs involve care and management of trees. The course was started by Bob Tate in 1980, around a core of managerial subjects such as in ventories, budgets, and public relations. After Bob left in 1984 to join Asplundh and later to start his own prosperous business in California, the course languished after it exhausted the local market for those subjects.
