Achieving Sufficiency in Urban Forestry

1. Achieving Sufficiency in Urban Forestry Phil Rodbell Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry

2. UCF Program Purpose • to encourage cooperative efforts to plan urban forestry programs and • to plant, protect, maintain, and utilize wood from trees • in open spaces, greenbelts, roadside screens, parks, woodlands, curb areas, and residential developments in urban areas.

3. Benefits A suite of services that mitigate climate change: • energy conservation • carbon sequestration • biomass utilization • storm water management, and • other environmental, social, and economic benefits

4. Core UCF Objectives • Assist communities in setting tree cover goals and policies • Improve community tree and forest management • Enhance the health of urban watersheds

5. Core Activities • Targeted assistance for protecting, conserving, and enhancing urban tree canopy cover • Tree plantings, tree inventories, tree cover assessments, and active management and planning of the urban forest resources • Public education and awareness

6. Measures and Results • Increase the number of communities and affected population that are managing and developingprograms to plant, protect, and maintain community trees and forests. S.O.A.P. = Staff, Ordinance, Advocacy, and Planning

7. Measures and Results • Improve the extent and quality of tree cover in the communities we serve.

8. Other Considerations • Manage and protect forests in urban growth areas and during development activities. • Mitigate climate change through targeted tree planting and maintenance efforts. • Support and create green jobs. • Address exotic invasive pest species that typically affect urban forests. • Protect and enhance watersheds in urban and developing areas. • Promote the importance of trees, forests, and forestry to urban residents.

9. “Crosswalk” Objectives • Educate community officials charged with making land use decisions. • Detect and monitor pests in urban areas. • Demonstrate use of woody biomass and strategic tree planting for energy conservation. • Develop integrated planning approach for catastrophic events (fire, pests, storms) • Improve protection and management of watersheds to reduce storm water and incidence of flooding.

10. Building Bridges Prioritize forest landscapes; open space planning; slow fragmentation and sprawl; ecosystem services

11. Contact: Phil Rodbell USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry 11 Campus Blvd, Suite 200 Newtown Square, PA 19073 Or visit: www.na.fs.fed.us