Benefits of Trees and Urban Forests
- Vibrant Cities Lab
- City Trees Magazine
- Urban Forestry Primer
- TreePeople: 22 Benefits of Trees
- i-Tree Tools for Quantifying Ecosystem Services
- The Nature Conservancy: Funding Trees for Health
- U.S. Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry National Program
- U.S. Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program: Eastern Region
- The Hidden Value of Trees: Quantifying the Ecosystem Services of Tree Lineages
- Green Cities: Good Health – Comprehensive Research from the University of Washington
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
- Fair Forests
- Onondaga Earth Corps
- Alliance for Community Trees
- American Forests Tree Equity Score
- American Forests: Urban Heat Equity Data Short
- Schenectady Plants 50 Trees with New Collaborative Initiative
- DEC Announces $3.1 Million in Environmental Justice Community Impact Grant Awards
- Creating More Equitable Urban Forests by Understanding and Responding to Historical Trauma
Invasive Plants, IPM, Pests, and Diseases
- NYSDEC Emerald Ash Borer Resources
- Emerald Ash Borer Information Network
- NYSDEC Nuisance and Invasive Species Page
- NYS Integrated Pest Management Program (Cornell University)
- USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS): Plant Health
- Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) in New York State
- Branching Out: Integrated Pest Management for Trees and Shrubs Newsletter from Cornell University Plant Pathologists
Professional Organizations
Tree Boards & Tree Ordinances
Tree Inventories & Urban Forest Management Plans
Tree Profiles: Underutilized Urban Species and Cultivars
- Cornell Woody Plants Database
- Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
- Shingle Oak (Quercus imbricaria)
- Japanese Snowbell (Styrax japonica)
- Carolina Silverbell (Halesia carolina)
- Korean Mountainash (Sorbus alnifolia)
- American Smoketree (Cotinus obovatus)
- Chinese fringe tree (Chionanthus retusus)
- Regal Prince Oak (Quercus x warei ‘Long’)
- Swamp Chestnut Oak (Quercus michauxii)
- American hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana)
- ‘White Shield’ Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera)
- ‘Harvest Gold’ Linden (Tilia cordata x mongolica)
- Crimson Spire Oak (Quercus x bimundorum ‘Crimschmidt’)
- Cornell Urban Horticulture Institute: Recommended Urban Trees
- SMA Urban Tree of the Year 2020: Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)
- SMA Urban Tree of the Year 2018: Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- SMA Urban Tree of the Year 2017: Chestnut Oak (Quercus montana)
- SMA Urban Tree of the Year 2022: Musclewood (Carpinus caroliniana)
- SMA Urban Tree of the Year 2019: American Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana)
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