Published Library Resources

This virtual library holds a wide range of urban forestry resources including: research abstracts and full text journal articles, trade magazine articles, CDs, other technology transfer resources, books (or chapters of books), patents, ordinances, theses and dissertations, and conference proceedings.

An Introduction to Plant Pathology and Plant Disease Management

Introduction to plant pathogen diagnosis, disease life cycles, and control options. read more...

Bacterial Wetwood & Slime Flux

Basic description of what is known of the disease cycle of bacterial wetwood and slime flux, symptoms, and control options. read more...

Leaf and Stem Feeding Aphids

Basic description of leaf and stem feeding aphids, their life cycle, damage, and management options. read more...

Scales and Mealybugs

Basic description of scales and mealybugs, their life cycle, damage, and management options. read more...

Lilac/Ash Borer Management of Hardwood Borers of Trunks and Large Branches

Basic description of the lilac/ash borer, its life cycle, damage, and management options. read more...

The Poplar Vagabond Gall Aphid

Basic description of the poplar vagabond gall aphid's identification, life cycle, damage, and management options. read more...

How to Save Trees During Construction

Tree City USA Bulletin No. 7

Living with Urban Soils

Tree City USA Bulletin No. 5

Trees in the Riparian Zone

Tree City USA Bulletin No. 40

Let's Stop Salt Damage

Tree City USA Bulletin No. 32

Drought and Trees

How to recognize and avoid drought stress on trees read more...

How Trees Can Save Energy

Tree City USA Bulletin No. 21

Resolving Tree-Sidewalk Conflicts

Tree City USA Bulletin No. 3

Basic Tree Care for Wyoming

A factsheet discussing basic aspects of tree care and maintenance. read more...

Trees for Wildlife

Tree City USA Bulletin No. 13

9 Things You Should Know About Caring For Trees (poster)

Diagrams on 9 topics relating to tree care.

Conservation Trees

Booklet with information on trees for conservation related to erosion, energy, wildlife, farming, water quality and more.

Plant Trees for America (brochure)

Tree brochure to support The Arbor Day Foundation with Arbor Day and tree planting information.

Celebrate Arbor Day Guidebook

An introduction to Arbor Day, the foundation, and its goals and other general tree information to promote Arbor Day.

Time Warp Talk Show and Tree Planter Audiotape

Audio tape: Side 1 - Time Warp Talk Show, Side 2 - The Tree Planter

PHC - What it Means to You

Tree City USA Bulletin No. 37

How to Prune Young Shade Trees

Tree City USA Bulletin No. 1

What Tree is That? A guide to the more common trees found in the Western U.S.

Tree identification booklet for the Western U.S.

What Tree is That? A guide to the more common trees found in the Eastern and Central U.S.

Tree identification booklet for Eastern and Central U.S.

9 Things You Should Know About Trees

"9 suggestions for properly planting and caring for trees."

Arborday.org Tree Guide

Online database for tree selection and characteristics.

Urban and Community Forestry: A Practical Guide to Sustainability

Guidebook with an overview about urban forestry, what it means to a community and how to get the public involved.

How to Prune Deciduous Landscape Trees

Discusses proper pruning methods, utility conflict management, and wound treatments. read more...

Landscaping and Utilities: Problems, Prevention, and Plant Selection

Discusses possible shrub and tree conflicts with below and above ground utilities, along with ways to prevent such problems. read more...

Top 10 worst reasons to not prepare your home for forest fires

A look at common excuses given by landowners for not preparing their homes for wildfires and responses to these excuses. read more...

Asian Gypsy Moth

A brief description of the Asian gypsy moth, its impact, and control efforts.

Early Detention and Rapid Response Results in Better Control of Weeds

This factsheet discusses the necessity of early detection and immediate response when trying to control weeds.

Moisture Stress: What Does That Mean for Trees?

A brief description of how and why moisture stress occurs in trees and ways to prevent it. read more...

I Planted a Tree, Now What Do I Do?

Briefly discusses post-planting maintenance. read more...

Selecting Suitable Tree Species

Discusses how to choose what species to plant based on site conditions and intended uses. read more...

When to Plant?

A brief discussion on what time of year and under what site conditions one should plant a tree. read more...

Do I still believe in landscaping for fire prevention?

A retrospective look at the benefits of landscaping for fire prevention, despite the fact that the author's home was burned to the ground during a wild fire. read more...

The Basics of Weed Control

The factsheet gives the basic definition of a weed and the general classification and application procedures for herbicides. read more...

A Guide to Starting and Developing Community Forestry Programs with Specific Reference to Shade Tree Committees

A guide describing how to plan, enact, and evaluate a community's shade tree committee.

STRATUM Quick Start Guide

This guide is designed to help those who are new to i-Tree easily set up and implement an inventory project using the STRATUM software application. read more...

Urban Forests of Wisconsin: Pilot Monitoring Project 2002

Trees in cities can contribute significantly to human health and environmental quality. Unfortunately, little is known about the urban forest resource and what it contributes locally, regionally, and nationally in terms of ecology, economy, and social well-being. To better understand this resource ... read more...

Carbon Sequestration...What's That?

Basic description of carbon sequestration and attempts to decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide through carbon trading.

An approach for using soil surveys to guide the placement of water quality buffers

Riparian forest buffers may function better in some locations than in others for filtering pollutants out of agricultural runoff water. A simple method was developed for using information contained in soil surveys to identify better locations for filtering sediment and dissolved pollutants from ...

Protecting and Landscaping Homes in the Wildland/Urban Interface

Discusses preventative landscape design and other precautions to protect homes near the western wilderness from forest fires. read more...

An Introductory Guide to Urban and Community Forestry Programs

 

Vista Scenic Beauty Estimation Modeling: A GIS Approach

A GIS-based prediction model to evaluate vista scenic beauty ('natural scenic beauty'). read more...

Utah's Community Forests: Results of a Survey of Utah Towns and Cities to Determine Characteristics of Urban & Community Forestry Programs

 

Utah Forest Types: An Introduction to Utah Forests

 

The Landscape Below Ground: Proceedings of an International Workshop on the Tree Root Development in Urban Soils: Part 2 Roots (VHS Video)

 

Selection and Culture of Landscape Plants in Utah, A Guide for Southwestern and Central Utah

 

Conifers of the Temperate Rain Forests of Alaska

 

Benefit-Based Audience Segmentation: A Tool for Identifying Nonindustrial Private Forest (NIPF) Owner Education Needs

 

Preventing Stem Girdling Roots (VHS Video)

 

Plants Save Money...Reduce Energy Consumption

 

Method for Calculating Carbon Sequestration by Trees in Urban and Suburban Settings

 

Anchorage TREErific

 

A Guide to UFS: Position Announcements

 

A Guide to Buckthorn Busting

 

Got Trees? (APA Zoning Practice #7)

 

Working With Your City Council - DVD

 

Water-wise Landscaping

 

Urban Watershed Forestry Manual: Part 1

 

Urban Forests: A Supplement to Florida's Project Learning Tree

"Urban Forests: A Supplement to Florida's Project Learning Tree is a companion document for teachers and natural resource professionals who have the PreK-8 Project Learning Tree Activity Guide. This supplement helps youth see their community’s urban forests as significant, valuable, and worth ...

Urban Forest Effects (UFORE) Model: Field Data Collection Manual

 

Trees in Business Districts: Positive Effects on Consumer Behavior!

 

Trees and Ice Storms: The Development of Ice Storm-Resistant Urban Tree Populations - Second Edition

 

TREES: A Prospectus

 

The State of Our Trees: The Status and Health Of the Street Trees Of Washington DC

"The information presented here about the street trees of Washington, D.C. is the most detailed ever assembled. The findings come from careful measurements and observations made and digitally recorded in the field last summer by nearly 500 trained volunteers, students and Casey Trees staff who ... read more...

The Green Build-out Model: Quantifying the Stormwater Management Benefits of Trees and Green Roofs in Washington, DC

"The Green Build-out Model is a planning tool that quantifies the cumulative stormwater management benefits of trees and green roofs for different coverage scenarios across the District of Columbia. It calculates potential reductions in stormwater runoff within the municipal separate storm sewer ... read more...

The Forest Fun Book

 

The Calming Effect of Green: Roadside Landscape and Driver Stress

 

STRATUM Data Dictionary for GPS Units Using Trimble Technology

 

Stem Girdling Roots: The Underground Epidemic Killing Our Trees

 

Selecting and Planting Landscape Trees

 

Root Injury and Tree Health

 

16 Less Common Trees for Utah Landscape: Diversifying Utah's Community Forests

 

Jonesboro (AR) Greenway

 

Impervious Surface Reduction: Parking Lot Design

Parking Lot Design is chapter 3 of the Urban Small Sites Best Management Practice Manual and provides design guides for stormwater runoff reduction using vegetation. read more...

Gulf Coast Tree Assessment: 2006 Presentation to ISA (PDF)

 

Georgia's Tree Ordinances

 

Firewise Plants of Utah Landscapes

 

Fifty Trees of the Midwest

 

Developing Tree Purchasing and Planting Specifications

 

Dale una Mano a los Bosques: Gu’a para Jefe de Proyecto

Nivel Educativo: Grados 3 - 8"Dale una Mano a los Bosques es un programa de aprendizaje-servicio a la comunidad que involucra a grupos de juvenes en exploraciones y proyectos de accion centrados sobre arboles y bosques. Esta Gu’a provee el transfondo y las recomendaciones para que l’deres adultos y ... read more...

Dale una Mano a los Bosques

Nivel Educativo: Grados 3 - 8 "Dale una Mano a los Bosques es un programa de apredizaje-servicio que involucra a grupos de juvenes en exploraciones y proyectos de accion centrados en arboles y bosques. El cuadernillo es una gu’a de proyectos de 105 paginas para los juvenes. Describe un proceso de ... read more...

Working With Your City Council - VHS

 

Urban Watershed Forestry Manual: Part 3

 

SHADE: Trees Make Dollars and Sense

 

Conifers for Utah

 

Common Trees of Alaska

 

Combined Glossary of Disaster Terms (FEMA)

 

City of Charleston, South Carolina Municipal Forest Resource Analysis

 

Chicago Wilderness, An Atlas of Biodiversity

 

Centers for Urban and Interface Forestry (CUIF) Newsletter

 

Carbon Credit Program Forestry Offsets from Tree Plantings & Reforestation

Forestry Contract, Forestry Offset Enrollment Worksheet. CCX Forestry Offset Table. This is the "Forestry Offset Pool Contract" between the North Dakota Farmers Union and the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) for 2003-2010. read more...

Pruning Landscape Trees: An Overview

 

Preventing Chain Saw Injuries During Tree Removal after a Hurricane

 

Preparing for Storms: Essential Resources (PDF)

 

Planting a Balled and Burlapped Tree

"Balled and burlapped trees are an excellent way to obtain trees that are large enough to provide a visual impact, yet small enough for homeowners to plant themselves." read more...

Plant the Right Tree in the Right Place (North FL)

A guide to help homeowners in north and central Florida select appropriate tree planting locations relative to overhead and underground utilities. The mature tree must have enough space away from power lines and in an area large enough to accommodate the canopy and root system. read more...