Home Gardening Tips:
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