Foresters, fire experts and the government’s own contractors have compiled confronting images of massive forest fuel loads, ...

Global mobility has never been more accessible, creating unprecedented opportunities to choose where to call home based on ...

ASHEVILLE – The city is creating its first-ever Urban Forest Master Plan, a long-awaited study that will serve as a roadmap for sustainable management, protection and enhancement of the city’s urban ...

Creating cooling shade, improving air quality and providing wildlife habitat. These are just three of the top benefits of trees identified by residents for the city’s first Urban Forest Strategic Plan ...

Kepaniwai Park is shown here. Maui County officials are asking for public input as they work to craft an urban forest management plan. Photo courtesy Maui County Maui County officials are seeking ...

Australia’s tropical forests are the world’s first to flip a worrisome switch. The forests are now putting more carbon into the atmosphere than they are taking out, researchers report in the Oct. 16 ...

PITTSBURG – In a city where summer heat outpaces shade, Pittsburg is taking steps to expand its urban tree canopy to ensure that every neighborhood, especially those impacted by rising temperatures ...

SUMMIT, N.J. — A growing movement is bringing the benefits of forests into surprisingly small spaces across the country, with communities creating entire ecosystems in areas no bigger than a suburban ...

“It is far too difficult to get a street tree planted in the five boroughs. The Urban Forest Plan must reverse this paradigm; if the goal of growing the city’s tree canopy to 30 percent coverage is as ...

“Edible forests” are popping up in Boston. Scattered across the city, once-empty lots have been overtaken by fruit trees and berry-filled bushes. Open to the public, they are forage-friendly pockets ...

In 2019, Reed Hildberbrand released an urban forest master plan for Cambridge, Massachusetts. Four years later, the Biden administration allocated $1.5 billion to Urban and Community Forestry Grants ...

This story has been updated to add a video. Indianapolis is losing around 50 acres of urban forest annually to development. Most are privately owned, but even those that are publicly owned, like the ...