Evaluating Stormwater Benefits of Atlanta’s Urban Forest
This project documents the contribution of urban tree systems to stormwater nutrient and volume control in terms of their effectiveness at…
Incorporating Forestry into Stormwater Management Programs: State of the Science and Business Model Evaluation for Nutrient Reduction and Volume Control
This project documents the contribution of urban tree systems to stormwater nutrient and volume control in terms of their effectiveness…
Planning for Climate Change Through Riparian Restoration in Houston, Texas
The City of Houston faces a unique set of natural and developmental resiliency challenges that make it especially vulnerable to…
Urban Forest Systems and Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Trees provide considerable stormwater volume and pollution control through rainfall interception and intensity reduction, stormwater infiltration and uptake, and nutrient…
How Trees and Urban Forest Systems Actually Affect Stormwater Runoff
As municipalities adopt low-impact development (LID) and green stormwater infrastructure practices to manage stormwater runoff, stormwater managers and design engineers…
Implementing and managing urban forests: A much needed conservation strategy to increase ecosystem services and urban wellbeing
Planting more trees in potential tree cover areas could nearly double the benefits provided by the urban forest. In 2016…
Toledo’s Stormwater Credit Manual
A revised stormwater credit guide for the City of Toledo, OH that lists forested buffers as an eligible management practice…
Tree Pit Infiltration Capacity: Effects of Different Design and Management Strategies
Water infiltration rate was measured at forty tree pits representing the variety of physical conditions commonly seen in New York…
The Role of Trees in Stormwater Management
Up-to-date primary source outlining opportunities and barriers to using trees in stormwater management — related to arboricultural, institutional and organizational…
Making Your Community Forest-Friendly: A Worksheet for Review of Municipal Codes and Ordinances
This worksheet was designed to help communities review and revise their development regulations, so that future projects conserve and protect…
Urban Trees Reduce Nutrient Leaching
Many urban waterways suffer from excess nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), feeding algal blooms, which cause lower water clarity and…
How trees and urban forest systems really affect stormwater runoff
Urban forest canopies greatly reduce stormwater runoff by retaining and slowing precipitation.
Benefits and Costs of Urban Forest Ecosystems
By altering the type and arrangement of trees in a city (i.e., the urban forest structure), one can affect the…
Quantifying the Benefits of Urban Forest Systems
Urban Trees can retain rainfall in their crowns, delay stormwater runoff, increase the infiltration capacity of urban soils, and provide…
Review of Runoff and Pollutant Removal Capabilities of Urban Trees
1. What is the effectiveness of urban tree planting on reducing runoff, nutrient and sediment? 2. How does effectiveness vary…
Economics of Suspended Pavement Systems
In a comprehensive study of Boise’s stormwater management practices, researchers found suspended pavement tree systems to be the least cost effective for…
Green Infrastructure for Los Angeles
Addressing Urban Runoff and Water Supply Through Low Impact Development
Webinar: Importance of Trees in Stormwater Management (2016)
This webinar discusses the important role of trees and vegetation in managing stormwater and gives examples of Vermont-based projects that…
Street Trees Serve Double Purpose: Capture Stormwater, Remove PCBs
The City installed six stormwater treatment tree well units in its sidewalk planting strips in West Oakland. The project is…
Portland Urban Forest Management Plan
The Urban Forest Action Plan was developed to implement the goals established in the management plan. The goals the action…
Municipal Sustainability Plan in Philadelphia
The Greenworks initiative, begun in 2009, set a new vision and ambitious goals in 2016.
Sustain Louisville Plan Incorporates Urban Forest Management
In 2023, Mayor Greenberg created the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability (OS), to elevate sustainability within Louisville Metro Government and integrate…
Vibrant Cities & Urban Forests _ A National Call to Action
Twenty-five leaders from all sectors of urban forestry met in a forum to identify needs and opportunities for urban forestry…
Not Just Beautiful, but Hard Workers Too
A helpful aid in demonstrating the value of trees to provide ecosystem services.
Athens-Clarke County Tree Ordinance.
The ordinance strives to maintain at least 45% canopy cover in Athens-Clarke County. It works towards this goal by requiring…