Anomalies in Australian municipal tree managers’ street-tree planting and species selection principles

Implementing Municipal Tree Planting: Los Angeles Million-Tree Initiative

Urban forests are increasingly being seen as an important infrastructure that can help cities remediate their environmental impacts. This work reports on the first steps in implementing a million tree program in Los Angeles and the ways such a biogenic-living-infrastructure has been approached. Numbers of studies have been done to quantify the benefits of urban forests, but little has been writ...

Species for Christmas Tree Planting in Virginia*

Christmas trees can be grown through out the state, and growers are located in all regions. Se lec tion of the proper species, however, is important. Soil conditions and gen er al climate are the primary considerations influencing species selection, but other characteristics, such as con sum er pref er ence, species characteristics and require ments, condition of the planting site, and the pres...

Street tree valuation systems

Street trees and urban woodlands provide a number of environmental and social benefits, including contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation and providing urban green space. This Note presents the results of a review of three approaches to estimating the amenity value of street trees: CAVAT, Helliwell and i-Tree. The review showed that the three valuation systems differ significan...

Selecting and Testing Street Tree Cultivars

To improve street trees through better selection of species 1 and cultivars is an important goal of the Municipal Tree Restoration Program . Communities have been assisted by publishing “Street Tree Factsheets”, through workshops on “Selecting Street Trees’, and by research on performance testing of cultivars. Factsheets on 35 species or genera and 87 cultivars were based on published informati...

Tree Planting in Indonesia: Trends, Impacts and Directions