NY State Urban and Community Forestry Council Resources - Central New York

NYS Urban Forestry Council

Benefits of Trees

	US Forest Service - “Trees Pay Us Back: Tools for Communicating the Benefits of Trees”
	•	Reports and other documents developed with iTree data and used to promote the urban forest

Broad Range of Urban Forestry Information

	Trees Are Good - An educational website of the International Society of Arboriculture

	TreeLink

	Arbor Day Foundation

	Urban Natural Resources Institute

	University of Washington - Center for Urban Horticulture

Contacts

	NYS Urban and Community Forestry Council

	NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)

	NYS DEC - List of Regional Forestry Offices

	New York ReLeaf

	Cornell Cooperative Extension - Find your County Office

	Cornell Cooperative Extension - Cornell Cooperative Extension
	•	Lower Hudson Valley (offers many green industry workshops with continuing education credits)

Federal / Government Agencies

	NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
	•	The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

	USDA Forest Service
	•	USDA Forest Service national headquarters website.

Government

	NYS Department of Environmental Conservation - Urban Forestry Program

	US Forest Service - Urban Forestry Site

	US Forest Service - Urban Forestry Resources

	US Forest Service - Northeast Center for Urban and Community Forestry

	US Forest Service - Northeast Research Station

	US Forest Service - Pacific Southwest Research Station, Center for Urban Forest Research

	US Forest Service - NORTHEASTERN AREA

Invasive Insects and Pests

	USFS Animal Plant Health Inspection Service - main page

	Emerald Ash Borer – A cooperative emerald ash borer website developed by the federal government, state agencies and universities

	Cornell Entomology – pest updates

	Invasive Plant Council of New York State

	NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets – Forest Health Invaders

Inventories

	i-TREE - free suite for assessing and managing community forests

	Cornell University SWAT - Conducting a Street Tree Inventory by hiring a Student Weekend-Arborist Team (SWAT)

Management Plans

	Northeast Center for Urban & Community Forestry – management plan guide

Ordinances

	TreeORD - Tree ordinance software from Tree Trust

	Tree Ordinance Development Guidebook - Georgia Forestry Commission

Professional Organizations

	International Society of Arboriculture (ISA)

	New York State Arborists

	Tree Care Industry Association

	Society of Municipal Arborists

	North American Association for Environmental Education

	American Society of Consulting Arborists

	Society of American Foresters

	New York State Nursery and Landscape Association

PROGRAMS

	Urban and Community Forestry Program
	•	Urban and community forestry is the management of trees and forests within populated areas from small villages to large cities.

Risk Tree Assessment

	US Forest Service – Urban Tree Risk Management

SPONSORS

	Tree City USA
	•	The official site of the National Arbor Day Foundation provides information about planting and caring for trees, our Rain Forest Rescue and Tree City USA programs, and much more. Buy trees and give a gift of trees through our Trees in Memory and Trees for America programs.

Street Tree – Municipal Resources

	Tree City – learn how to become a Tree City USA

	Cornell University Community Forestry - A clearinghouse for information to help communities manage their urban trees

	Urban Horticulture Institute – free downloadable resources

	University of Florida Horticulture – trees and sidewalks

	Urban Natural Resources Institute

	American Forests

	America In Bloom

Tree Boards

	NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

Tree Identification

	Tree ID Self Test

	Arbor Day Foundation

	What Tree Is It?

	Basics of Tree ID

	Tree Link – What Tree Is That?

	Cornell Woody Plants Database

Trees and Health

	University of Illinois - at Urbana Champagne, Human-Environment Research Laboratory

	Urban Tree Cover and Air Quality Planning

	American Forests – Trees and Ecosystem Services

	Understanding the Science Behind Riparian Forest Buffers: Effects on Water Quality

	Cornell NYS IPM Interactive Plant Manager - Diagnosing Pests of Woody Ornamental Plants

	Forestry Images

Youth Materials and Resources

	Arbor Day Foundation

	Urban Forestry South - Discovering the Urban Forest Activity Book

	Cornell 4-H Know Your Trees