Denuding Communities: Tree Canopy Loss Calculations & Public Perceptions
University Outreach Publication
For many communities, self-image is centered around their trees and green spaces. Communities compromise between greenspace and economic development.
Unfortunately the pace of economic development, land use shifts, generational changes, and tree growth all move at different rates. Nothing is as it has been and reality perceptions are always a bit behind times. If you can not see the whole picture of a community, then you understand it only through a limited sampling of those areas within which you live, work, shop, worship, and educate your children.
What is the change in your community trees resources? How fast are you accumulating trees and losing trees? At this rate, what will the community look like in 10, 20, and 50 years? If you travel away and come back in 25 years, would you recognize the community? How many trees which you now find majestic, massive and unique would still be present? If these big old trees are gone, what have they been replaced with – pavement, shrubs, barren soil?
(SFR04-12) November 2004
K.D. Coder
2004
School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia
Athens, GA (US)
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SFR04-12
Community Forestry, Forest Management, Fragmentation/Parcelization, Infrastructure (green), Planting, Protection (tree), Remote Sensing, Urban Forest Management
International
Canopy changes, Canopy loss, Leaf characteristics, Community changes, Canopy loss calculations
