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February 20, 2018

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Tools for Assessing and Managing
Community Trees and Forests

In this issue:

Community Under the Canopy: Spotlight on South Bend. Part 1.
Coming Soon
Upcoming i-Tree Presentations and Webinars

Community Under the Canopy: Spotlight on South Bend. Part 1.

As a demonstration of the dramatic change that can impact urban forests, the two images above are of the same location in South Bend. In 2005 it was a hospital campus with a lot of impermeable surface, and currently it is a high school with more trees and turf.

In 2017, the city of South Bend, Indiana was one of ten cities chosen by the National League of Cities (NLC) for the Leadership in Community Resilience Program. Through their Sustainable Cities Institute, the NLC offers these communities a small funding grant, technical assistance, and support for development opportunities aimed at helping build resiliency through efforts to reduce risk, improve services, adapt to changing conditions, and empower citizens.

South Bend utilized this program to assess the extent to which urban forest and other green infrastructure can be developed to help manage stormwater, mitigate urban heat, and improve neighborhood quality. In November, members of the Davey Institute were invited to their workshop with city sustainability managers, parks and urban foresters, and the public works department, for a discussion on how improvements in the amount and quality of their canopy cover can help achieve these goals.

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Coming Soon

Project Learning Tree

Project Learning Tree and their partners have collaborated to create lesson plans and resources for K-12 teachers around i-Tree Design. These resources should be available by the end of February.

Additional Pollution Removal Quantification in i-Tree Eco
In an upcoming release of i-Tree Eco, users will be able to find out how much pollution is removed each month by grasslands, which includes maintained, unmaintained, and herbaceous cover, and the health impacts attributed to that. This new feature will be limited to Ecov6 projects in the U.S. using sample plots and collecting ground cover data.

i-Tree Eco International

Coming this spring, i-Tree Eco will be fully automated for out of the box use in Mexico and over 30 additional countries in Europe. This will increase the reach of Eco to over 35 countries globally. New international locations will be shared in the future on the i-Tree website.

Connect with i-Tree Team Members and Other Urban Forest Practitioners During Upcoming Presentations and Webinars

Presentations:

Jason Henning with the Davey Institute will present "Communicating the Benefits of Trees with i-Tree" for the Allegheny Society of American Foresters Training at Gettysburg PA on February 22, 2018.

Jason Henning with the Davey Institute will present information about some of the i-Tree tools for the Healthy Trees, Healthy Peoples conference at the Frick Environmental Center in Pittsburgh PA. The conference runs from May 23 to 24, 2018. Date and title of his presentation are pending.

Urban Natural Resource Institute Webinar:

i-Tree Planting

Thursday February 22nd @ 1:00pm EST

This session will highlight one of the newest i-Tree tools, i-Tree Planting. This tool is designed to help you estimate the long-term environmental benefits from a tree planting project.

The free series is offered by the Urban Natural Resources Institute and is led by members of the i-Tree Team. Sessions typically feature demonstrations, presentations and discussion designed to help participants become familiar with the i-Tree tools and provide a foundation for further learning.

Pre-registration is required to participate in these webinars.

Visit the UNRI website for updates and registration details >>>

Archived webinars and presentations can be accessed from the i-Tree Presentations page and future events can be viewed on the Workshops & Training page.

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