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State of the NYC Urban Forest


The New York City Council - File #: Int 1065-2023

An urban forest plan. Type: Introduction, Status: Enacted ...

Constructing New York City's urban forest. The politics and ...

In 2005-2006, bureaucrats at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) began to marshal quantitative evidence to argue for investment in tree ...

The New York State Urban Forestry Council - Facebook

The New York State Urban Forestry Council. 737 likes. Public Private Volunteer partnerships doing Planting Management Education.

Understanding opportunities for urban forest expansion to inform goals

Relying solely on areas identified as practical canopy to expand the urban forest would exacerbate these inequities. We discuss how the NYC UFTF established a ...

§ 18-164 Urban forest plan. - American Legal Publishing

The term “urban forest” means all the trees contained within New York city, whether or not they are under the jurisdiction of the commissioner or on property ...

Our Urban Forest - ArcGIS StoryMaps

Oops! You may have clicked an old link. Follow the link below to find "Our Urban Forest," a Story Map by NYC Parks.

The Hottest Summer Ever Demands We Create Robust Urban Forests

Beyond New York City, the rest of New York State is also recognizing the vital role of urban forests in combating extreme heat and addressing ...

NYC Parks Releases 'Our Urban Forest' Storymap - GothamToGo

NYC Parks today announced the completion of a brand-new StoryMaphighlighting the City's trees, canopy, and forestry maintenance titled "Our ...

Meet the NYC Urban Forest Task Force - PBS

But this urban forest is not distributed evenly across the five boroughs. According to the New York Nature Conservancy, the neighborhoods with ...

New York City, New York - Municipal Forest Resource Analysis

This analysis combines results of a citywide street tree census with benefit–cost modeling data to produce four types of information on the city-managed street ...

We must protect NYC's urban forest - New York Daily News

The citywide urban forest plan will use existing data to evaluate the health, stability and extent of the NYC urban forest, identify the ...

The State of the Urban Forest in New York City

The files available here contain summary data for the urban forest of New York City, associated with the report, The State of the Urban Forest in New York City, ...

Urban & Community Forest Master and Management Plan

The Urban and Community Forest Master Plan guides the expansion and preservation of the City of Saratoga Spring's urban forest, with the goal of maximizing ...

A city-scale assessment reveals that native forest types and ...

We find that stand structure in urban forest stands is more similar to rural forests in New York State than to stand structure reported for prior assessments of ...

Every Neighborhood Leafy - Vital City

New York is usually represented by images of concrete, steel, traffic and skyscrapers. But green space, especially the tree canopy provided ...

Studies Show Need for NYC Urban Forest Growth

NEW YORK -- New research shows how expanding New York City's urban forest would benefit New Yorkers' lives in the long term.

Municipal Resources for Managing Our Urban Forests

New York State's Urban Forestry program is a partnership of public, private and volunteer organizations and individuals that fosters comprehensive planning, ...

Individual structure mapping over six million trees for New York City ...

There were 6,005,690 trees identified from the remotely-sensed dataset over the entire NYC (Fig. 1). The Queens and State Island regions had ...

The urban forest of New York City - Medium

The U.S. Forest Service recently gave an inspirational shout-out about the remarkable expansion of New York City's urban forest canopy, ...

NYC Urban Ecosystem Toolbox: Street Trees and Flora

Urban forestry -- New York (State) -- New York. Collection Highlights ... The urban forest of New York City by US Forest Service. USDA ...