Building a Greener Future

Building a Greener Future

Reading Time: 4 minutes An Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP) provides essential guidance for communities striving to safeguard their urban trees and increase their urban canopy.

Winter 2024

Winter 2024

Reading Time: 11 minutes Meet our new ED
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Summer 2023

Summer 2023

Reading Time: 13 minutes Our collective commitment to the well-being of our urban environments and the advancement of urban forestry’s role in public health, sustainability, and equity serves as a powerful driving force.

February 2023

February 2023

It is been quite a start to the year with a series of storms bringing not only much-needed rain but also, unfortunately, the tragic loss of life and devasting damage to both our built and natural environment. These weather events have a way of highlighting areas where...

June 2020

June 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes It is shaping up to be a very different summer, a time for examining the things we often take for granted, like having equitable access to urban nature.

May 2020

May 2020

Dear community tree devotees, Many of us are entering the third month of sheltering-in-place. We are finding new ways to stay connected and are mastering our video conferencing skills. For those who love trees and are using ZOOM, we have created a few custom...

April 2020 Newsletter

April 2020 Newsletter

Dear community tree devotees, We are wanting to check in with you. All of us are feeling off balance. Right? All of us are at least a little fearful, some of us more. Some of us have elderly family members we are very concerned about. And we, even if healthy, vital,...

February 2020 Newsletter

February 2020 Newsletter

Planting Cool Parks  Our Invest From the Ground Up campaign has teamed up with West Coast Arborists, Inc, and the Western Chapter International Society of Arboriculture year after year, delivering programs to California’s disadvantaged and low-income communities...

January 2020 Newsletter

January 2020 Newsletter

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Creating healthy urban forests. Our Invest From the Ground Up Campaign has teamed up with cities throughout Southern California to improve the long term health of our urban forests.

November 2019 Newsletter

November 2019 Newsletter

Reading Time: 8 minutes Welcome! Did you make it to the conference in San Luis Obispo? We were inspired by how many people are working hard to make some great tools and resources for us that help grow our urban forests. We have featured two of these tools below.

September 2019 Newsletter

September 2019 Newsletter

Reading Time: 9 minutes Enter now! Deadline for nominations is tomorrow at 5pm! There is still time to get your nominations in for the 2019 Annual Urban Forestry Awards.

August 2019 Newsletter

August 2019 Newsletter

Enter now! Deadline for nominations is tomorrow at 5pm! There is still time to get your nominations in for the 2019 Annual Urban Forestry Awards. If you or someone you know has undertaken great urban forestry work in the past year and deserves to be recognized, then...

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