The USDA Forest Service Urban Natural Resources Institute (UNRI), in partnership with the University of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) a n d t h e Town o f Amherst, MA have recently completed a unique public awareness project that involved the development of ‘Tree Benefits Labels” [...]
Over the next several months, an international team of contributors will be developing a new tool - Urban Forestry Data Collection Standards, which will establish an international set of data collection and reporting standards that can be used in the discipline of urban forestry and arboriculture. The standards will include research, management and [...]
A Call for Papers for the upcoming ‘Trees, People and the Built Environment’ – Urban Tree Research Conference, to be held in Birmingham, UK to be held on 13-14 April 2011 is currently underway.
The upcoming event is being hosted by the Institute of Chartered Foresters and is supported by a wide range of UK professional [...]
The latest version of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Urban Forestry Working Group’s News Update is available via the web at www.unri.org/iufro. This issue of the Update features information on a series of upcoming conferences that focus on urban natural resources management and urban forestry. Additionally, a Call for Papers for the [...]
i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. i-Tree v3.0 is an improved version of the suite of tools driven by two years of feedback from cooperative stakeholders and the community of i-Tree users.
The i-Tree Tools help communities [...]
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