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Avoiding Tree and Utility Conflict
In most urban settings, these conflicts are unavoidable. But with proper planning and species selection, it can be done — saving considerable maintenance expenses in the meantime.
September 5, 2017
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.
September 6, 2017
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.
Tags: best management practices, design, financing, funding, policy, stormwater, value of trees
August 1, 2017
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.
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.
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
Bioretention and Biofiltration Facilities Factsheet
This is a factsheet about bioretention BMPs and presents design criteria, planting guidelines, species selection, and other references.
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.
September 6, 2017
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.
August 1, 2017
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.
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.
September 6, 2017
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
Tags: best management practices, calculators, design, EPA, green infrastructure, planning, stormwater
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.
Tags: best management practices, certification, design, planning, sustainability
August 1, 2017
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.
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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