Urban and Community Forests of New England
Urban and Community Forests of New England

Author: David John Nowak

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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This report details how land cover and urbanization vary within the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont by community (incorporated and census designated places), county subdivision, and county. Specifically this report provides critical urban and community forestry information for each state including human population characteristics and trends, changes in urban and community lands, tree canopy and impervious surface cover characteristics, distribution of land-cover classes, a relative comparison of urban and community forests among local government types, determination of priority areas for tree planting, and a summary of urban tree benefits. Report information can improve the understanding, management, and planning of urban and community forests. The data from this report are reported for each state on the accompanying CD-ROM, and they may be accessed by state at http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/data/urban.

Reclaiming the Commons
Reclaiming the Commons

Author: Brian Donahue

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780300089127

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A lively account of a community working to combat suburban sprawl, and how it discovers how to live responsibly on the land.

Handbook of Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast
Handbook of Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast

Author: John E. Kuser

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1461541913

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With the emergence of urban and community forestry as the fastest growing part of our pro fession in the last 15 years, the need for a book such as this inevitably developed. The So ciety of American Foresters' urban forestry working group counts 32 or more universities now offering courses in this subject, and the number is growing. For the last several years I have coordinated a continuing education urban forestry course at Rutgers for nonmatriculated students. Registrants have included arborists, shade tree commissioners, landscape architects, city foresters, environmental commissioners, park superintendents, and others whose jobs involve care and management of trees. The course was started by Bob Tate in 1980, around a core of managerial subjects such as in ventories, budgets, and public relations. After Bob left in 1984 to join Asplundh and later to start his own prosperous business in California, the course languished after it exhausted the local market for those subjects.