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Baltimore Tree Trust Organization

The Baltimore Tree Trust is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2009 to make Baltimore a greener and healthier place to live. Our mission is to restore Baltimore’s urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy. Since our inception, we have planted over 4,000 trees on private property and in disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout Baltimore City. The Tree Trust spearheads efforts to achieve Baltimore’s 40% urban tree canopy goal by methodically planting up neighborhoods that have few existing trees, while engaging community leaders and stakeholders in the planting and sustainable maintenance of trees.

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Banking on Green: A Look at How Green Infrastructure can Save Municipalities Money and Provide Economic Benefits Community-Wide

A comprehensive, well-sourced examination of how green infrastructure can save municipalities money and provide economic benefits community wide.

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Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program: BenMap

EPA’s BenMap site provides mapping data for both air pollution and associated health impacts at the county level. Requires modest GIS skill.

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Best Management Practices for Community Trees in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Guide for community trees in Louisiana. Includes tree cost and benefit information, best management practices, Tree_Selection, planting and maintenance, and information on stormwater management.

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Biodiversity Assessment Handbook for New York City

Designed as a guide for land managers, policymakers, conservationists, researchers, consultants, educators, and students who are addressing the myriad questions about greenspaces and biodiversity in the City

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Bioretention and Biofiltration Facilities Factsheet

This is a factsheet about bioretention BMPs and presents design criteria, planting guidelines, species selection, and other references.

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Buchanan Green Streets Project: City of Mount Rainier, MD

A PDF presentation that walks the viewer through the steps taken by this small city to engage its residents in site-specific ree planting.

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Building Resilience to Drought in Ozone Park: Conceptual Design for Potable Water Offset Using Treated Urban Runoff

Regional droughts and increasingly stringent water quality requirements make stormwater management more important than ever for the City of Santa Monica, California. In response, the City is implementing best management practices (BMPs) on public parcels and rights-of-way to augment the local water supply and improve water quality before storm flows discharge into the ocean.

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Calculating Credits for Tree Trenches and Tree Boxes

Stormwater credits are a tool for local stormwater authorities who are interested in providing incentives to site developers to encourage the preservation of natural areas and the reduction of the volume of stormwater runoff being conveyed to a best management practice, and meeting or complying with water quality objectives, including Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Wasteload Allocations (WLAs). There is also a discussion of how tree trench/tree box practices can achieve stormwater credits. Tree systems with and without underdrains are both discussed, with separate sections for each type of system as appropriate.

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Camden SMART (Stormwater Management and Resource Training) Initiative

Community-driven movement to protect human health, improve conditions for economic development, improve water quality and resiliences to flooding, and reduce combinedsewer overflows. Focus on the Delaware River.

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Case Studies Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Low Impact Development and Green Infrastructure Programs

EPA synthesizes the various ways costs and benefits of gray and green infrastructure can be assessed and compared. A must read for newcomers to the issue; it makes a powerful case, and shows how others can do the same. Complete document offers case studies, tools, calculators and extensive resource materials. Case Studies Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Low Impact Development and GreenInfrastructure Programs, 2013

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Certified STAR Communities: A New Milestone in the Urban Sustainability Movement

STAR Communities Index recognizes cities that have achieved high degrees of sustainability on most dimensions of urban life, including the natural environment. These case studies illustrate the outcomes of deliberate planning for sustainability.

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Charlottesville Invasive Plant Inventory

This inventory allows the city to quantify and budget for the extent of the invasive plant problem within the city in order to establish a management plan that will address the issue of preserving native vegetation.

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Chicago Region Trees Initiative

Collaboration of Chicago region partners working together to develop and implement a strategy that builds a healthier and more diverse urban forest by 2040

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Children Living in Areas With More Street Trees Have Lower Prevalence of Asthma

Higher street tree density was associated with a lower prevalence of childhood asthma even after adjustment for potential confounders (including sociodemographic characteristics, population density and proximity to pollution sources.

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Trees and Stormwater

The Ohio Kentucky Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) and its team of national partners are developing a guide for local decision makers to integrate trees into stormwater management design and policy applicable across the nation.

The guide is being designed to help overcome the widespread lack of understanding, acceptance, and credibility of using trees for managing stormwater by providing a practical tool that informs local decision makers of options and best practices for including trees in stormwater facility design regulations and policies.

This grant was funded in part by the USDA Forest Service’s National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Cost Share Grant Program as recommended by the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council.

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