Recommended Links

Home Gardening Tips and Resources:

• ISA Tree Owner Manual
• The Garden Professors
• OC Chapter California Native Plant Society
• Calscape – California Native Plant Society – Native plant database
• UCCE Master Gardners of Orange County – University of California – Agriculture and Natural Resources
• California Center for Urban Horticulture – UC Davis Wucols DB, (a great plant database)
• California Center for Urban Horticulture – UC Davis publications
• SelecTree – Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute at Cal Poly (Tree selection database)
• Soil Life – UC Davis
• Soils in Urban Agriculture – UC ANR
• Organic Amendments for Landscape Soils – UC ANR

IRWD:

• Residential Rebates
• Sprinkler Repair Program
• Recommended Watering Schedules – irrigation controller settings
• The Shed Show – Gardening Tips

Pests and Integrated Pest Management

• Home, garden, turf, and landscape pests – University of California IPM
• Invasive Species – University of Riverside Center for Invasive Species Research
• Pest Notes Library – UC IPM (Insects, diseases, weeds, animals)
• Insects Library Menu – UC IPM
• Beneficial Insects – UC IPM

Urban Forest Management:

• Community Forestry, Cornell University
• Urban Forest Management Plan Toolkit
• Maintenance of Street Trees and Sidewalks, The Fremont Municipal Code
• Urban Tree Foundation
• Tree Planting Details and Specifications, open source, James Urban, Falsa
• Urban Forest Images Database, ISA, for public use
• Urban Forests, US Forestry Service
• Urban and Community Forestry Program, US Forestry Service
• iTree Urban Forestry Software, US Forestry Service
• Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition
• Vibrant Cities Lab
• Ten Year Urban Forestry Action Plan
• Advanced Tree Care, Chuck Lippi
• “Landscape Plants”, University of Florida
• Additional resources

The Value of Trees:

• Formula provides basis for tree appraisal, Noble Research Institute
• Tree Value Calculator
• Explore and Calculate the Benefits of Trees, The Holden Arboretum

Tree Mortality:

• “Live fast, die young: Accelerated growth, mortality, and turnover in street trees“, Ian A. SmithID, Victoria K. Dearborn, Lucy R. Hutyra
• “Tree life history strategies: the role of defenses”, Craig Loehle, 1987
• “Street tree survival rates: Meta-analysis of previous studies and application to a field survey in Philadelphia, PA, USA”, Roman & Scatena, 2011
• “Natural Resources Conservation Service CONSERVATION PRACTICE STANDARD TREE/SHRUB ESTABLISHMENT“, Conservation Practice Standard Tree/Shrub Establishment (Code 612), 612-CPS-1, 2017
• The life span of common trees
• “The Hidden Life of Trees”, Wohlleben, 2018
• Extending the Life of Your Urban Tree (Part 1): University of Illinois Extension
• Extending the Life of Your Urban Tree (Part 2): University of Illinois Extension
• “Urban Tree Mortality: a Primer on Demographic Approaches“, USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report NRS-158, Roman, Battles, & McBride, 2016
• “Dispelling Misperceptions About Trees”,Gilman, 2011
• “Tree mortality rates and tree population projections in Baltimore, Maryland, USA“,Nowak, Kuroda, & Crane, 2004
• “The balance of planting and mortality in a street tree population“, Roman, Battles, & McBride, 2013
• “Planting and Maintaining Trees in Urban Areas”, Center for Watershed Protection, 2020
• “Factors affecting long-term mortality of residential shade trees: Evidence from Sacramento, California”, Ko, Lee, McPherson, & Roman, 2015
• “A Model of Urban Forest Sustainability”, Clark, Matheny, Cross, & Wake, 1917
• “Urban Forests – Assessing the Sustainability of Agricultural and Urban Forests in the United States”, 2016
• “Urban Forestry & Urban Greening – US Forest Service”, Nowak & Greenfield, 2018