City Policy Associates. Protecting and Developing the Urban Tree Canopy: A 135-City Survey. The United States Conference of Mayors, Washington, D.C. Canopy, Maintenance, Management, Municipal concerns, Trees, Urban, Urban trees This document outlines the results of a nationwide survey conducted by the Community Trees Task Force (within the U.S. Conference of Mayors). The aim of the survey was to more fully understand how individual cities across the country have approached the expansion and maintenance of their urban tree canopy.
Center for Watershed Protection. 2017. Design Specifications for Urban Tree Planting. Crediting Framework Product #8 for the project Making Urban Trees Count: A Project to Demonstrate the Role of Urban Trees in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Clean Water. Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD. The Center for Watershed Protection compiled best practices for design, preparation, planting, and maintenance of urban tree planting projects into a set of Design Specifications for Urban Tree Planting. These specifications can be incorporated as guidance by regulatory agencies adopting tree planting credits for stormwater or TMDL requirements to help ensure that trees planted can…
