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.

Firewise Landscaping for Utah

Firewise Landscaping for Utah describes how to create and maintain landscapes around homes, cabins and other buildings to reduce fire risks. Principles and suggestions for building placement, plant choice and placement, and landscape maintenance are explained. An extensive list and photos of ...

Firewise activities of full-time versus seasonal residents in the wildland-urban interface

Increased migration to rural areas in and near the wildland-urban interface has increased the complexity of wildland fire management in these areas. Creating defensible space around one’s home in the wildland-urban interface is one way residents can become involved in protecting their own homes ...

Fire programs partner satisfaction study

The purpose of this study was to obtain preliminary partner satisfaction information about two grant programs: the Community Assistance and Rural Fire Assistance Grant Programs. The study provides baseline data for each program that can be used as a mechanism for a more detailed study in the ...

Fire, Ecosystems and People

Is fire a major conservation issue? A growing body of anecdotal and scientific evidence suggests that it is, but the science remains uneven. The global extent of the conservation threat is still largely undocumented. The United Nations and other bodies have made various attempts to assess the ...

Connecting local environmental knowledge and land use practices: A human ecosystem approach to urbanization in West Georgia

As forests and the communities that live and work in them are transformed through urbanization, environmental knowledge and awareness of the impacts of land use practices on the local environment is reduced. The primary focus of this paper was to identify those factors which have a significant ...

"City Form and Natural Process" - indicators for the ecological performance of urban areas and their application for Merseyside, UK.

It is well known that urbanisation has many deleterious ecological effects. These may be mitigated by good urban design but the first step in doing this is to quantify them. This paper describes four simple ecological performance indicators which quantify the effects of urbanisation on surface ...

Characterization of households and its implications for the vegetation of urban ecosystems

Our understanding of the dynamics of urban ecosystems can be enhanced by examining the multidimensional social characteristics of households. To this end, we investigated the relative significance of three social theories of household structure—population, lifestyle behavior, and social ...

A selective bibliography of scientific literature on hazardous fuel management in loblolly pine-dominated forests of the southeastern U.S.

Loblolly pine-dominated forests are common in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of the South. The management of hazardous fuels has become a major issue in these areas, especially where forests are intermixed with housing and roads. In many of these areas, conventional fuel treatments such as ...

A demographic and socio-economic profile of the region surrounding the Big Thicket National Preserve: Implications for future management strategies

The following study examined selected socio-economic and demographic variables fro US Census data in the surrounding counties of the Big Thicket National Preserve (BITH). Data were examined using the 1990 and 2000 census from counties surrounding the BITH in a fifty-mile radius. Data changes were ...

Hurricane effects on forest ecosytems in the Caribbean

Hurricanes are common, potentially catastrophic events for ecosystems in the Caribbean. We synthesize the work reported in this issue, together with the existing literature, to discuss effects of hurricanes on Caribbean ecosystems and to highlight priorities for future work. Comparisons of the ...

How American, Australian, and Canadian WUI programs are hitting home

The article compares the different approaches the three countries have in terms of educating homeowners about the realities of living with fire. Notably, the article describes the innovative Stay and Defend or Go Early program that has had some success in Australia, and is being adapted to a ...

The differences in scenic perception of forest visitors through their attributes and recreational activity

The purpose of this study is to discuss the relationships between visitors’ characteristics and their choice of activities, with regard to scenery and how it was perceived, in a suburban recreational forest in Japan. A visitor employed photography method was used to record the visitors’ scenic ...

Sustainable tourism infrastructure planning: A GIS based approach

This paper presents a conceptual GIS-supported sustainable tourism infrastructure planning approach (STIP). This approach aims at integrating a comprehensive set of sustainability criteria (i.e., dealing with development objectives, preferred visitor experiences, and carrying capacity standards) in ...

Nature-friendly Ordinances

This book helps communities conserve and restore those biodiversity features of their environment that add value regionally and locally. Intended for all local decisionmakers that deal with land use - planning staff, planning and zoning boards, local legislative boards, and property owners.

Modeling landscape permeability for the Northern Red-legged Frog in an urban-wildland landscape matrix

Urban development is occurring rapidly worldwide, necessitating conservation models which identify indicators for planning practitioners to use in local land use decisions in order to minimize species loss. This study will assess landscape permeability for the Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) ...

Modeling actual evapotranspiration from forested watersheds across the southeastern United States

About 50 to 80 percent of precipitation in the southeastern United States returns to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration. As evapotranspiration is a major component in the forest water balances, accurately quantifying it is critical to predicting the effects of forest management and global change ...

Localizing national fragmentation statistics with forest type maps

Fragmentation of forest types is an indicator of biodiversity in the Montreal Process, but the available national data permit assessment of only overall forestland fragmentation, not forest type fragmentation. Here we illustrate how to localize national statistics from the 2003 National Report on ...

Local energy efficient program (LEEP) workbook

This Leep Workbook contains guidance, examples, and resource listings to help those seeking to increase EE at the local community level. Importantly, it tells the reader what can be done and how to do it.

Funded by the California Public Utilities Commission*, the Leep Workbook describes ...

Living with Fire: Sustaining Ecosystems and Livelihoods Through Integrated Fire Management

As humankind has spread throughout the world, we have created new fire regimes that continue to shape and modify landscapes. Although some ecosystems depend on fire to maintain native species, population pressures are now causing land changes, migrations into new areas, and an increase in ignitions ...

Lather Up: 5 drillls for using class A foam in the wildland urban interface

Class A foam and compressed air foam systems (CAFS) are quickly becoming essential tools in wildland/urban interface (WUI) operations. But as foam use becomes more wide-spread, so too does the need to train firefighters to ensure its safe and effective use.

When Nature is at Your Doorstep: Exploring Wildland -Urban Interface Issues

Many people are choosing to live close to nature. The wildland-urban interface offers peace and quiet, scenic views, and privacy. Interface residents, natural resource professionals, and community leaders can work together to protect these benefits through land-use planning, resource management, ...

Well Grounded, Using Local Land Use Authority to Achieve Smart Growth

This book explores the growing interest in land use law and practice that has been stimulated by the public's increasing disfavor with urban sprawl and support of smart growth. It places land use practice into the national perspective by fully describing one of the natino's most complete state land ...

Utilizing municipal trees: Ideas from across the country

To show how municipal tree removals can be utilized for traditional wood products, this publication highlights 16 successful projects from around the country. These case studies are organized by the different types of participants: State and regional partnerships, municipalities, tree service ...

Alternative Lawns

Alternative lawns designed with native species, such as buffalo grass, are a better choice for homeowners then conventional lawns. Conventional lawns require constant mowing and irrigation, cause water runoff pollution due to their consistent need of pesticides, and often contribute to invasive ...

Urban and Rural Areas 2003

This is a detailed brochure containing charts, graphs and spreadsheets that reflect the percentages of people living in urban and rural areas, the annual change in urban growth, and the population of the largest urban agglomeration for numerous countries.

Towards meeting the Urban Biodiversity Conservation Challenge in the City of Cape Town: The Cape Town Biodiversity Strategy and CUBES Cape Town Initiative

Cape Town, at the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom, is regarded as a global 'urban biodiversity hotspot'. The City of Cape Town has adopted a Biodiversity Strategy as an integrated and co-ordinated approach to the protection of its unique biodiversity. The Biodiversity Strategy recognizes the need ...

The WUI War

With the increased threat of wildfires, coupled with community expansion from suburban to more rural areas, there is a greater public expectation for protection from wildfire. Specifically, the public recognizes the escalating number of wildfires, the loss of homes in recent years and firefighters ...

The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas around Your Home

In the Eastern United States, roughly 60% of privately owned forestland is owned by landowners with parcels under 10 acres. Many landowners establish large lawns for aesthetic considerations, not understanding the impacts it has on wildlife, recreational opportunities, water quality, and the ...

Wildland Fire and Fuels Research and Development Stategic Plan: Meeting the needs fo the present, anticipating the needs of the future

The historic and ongoing role of wildland fire as a disturbance and the range of effects of fire and fuels management in various ecosystems are understood by the public, land managers, and policymakers. Land management practices and planning reflect the short and long term roles of fire at regional ...

South Carolina's wildland urban interface DVD

A DVD addressing living with fire, homes in the fire line, and it contains an interface photo slideshow.

San Francisco East Bay fire history, landscape changes

The San Francisco East Bay landscape is a rich mosaic of grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands that is experiencing losses of grassland due to colonization by shrubs and succession toward woodland associations. The instability of these grasslands is apparently due to their disturbance-dependent ...

Retail land use, neighborhood satisfaction and the urban forest: an investigation into the moderating and mediating effects of trees and shrubs

This paper examines the relationship between retail land use and neighborhood satisfaction along with the moderating and mediating effects of trees and shrubs. Neighborhood satisfaction has been related to a number of environmental factors including land uses. However, no other research has ...

The Nature of Open Space Programs: Linking Land Protection and Biodiversity Conservation

The conservation of biodiversity supports efforts to ensure the long-term stability of wildlife species and habitats, ecosystems and economies, and public health and welfare. Because the greatest threats to wildlife and biodiversity in the United States are habitat destruction, degradation, and ...

The Natural Role of Fire

To extend knowledge of fire's role in Florida forests, this publication has been developed from scientific literature review and observations by experienced personnel.To meet future environmental demands, land managers must build uncommon strength in all three fire activities: prevention, ...

The impact of interactions in spatial simulation of the dynamics of urban sprawl

This study investigated the modeling process for simulating the spatial dynamics of an urban ecosystem. Logistic regression is a common method for empirically modeling and analyzing land use and land use change. In most conventional applications of logistic regression, only the individual factors ...

Resident perceptions and expectations of rooftop gardens in Singapore

Using data from the high-rise, high-density city of Singapore, this paper examines residents’ perceptions and expectations of rooftop gardens in Singapore. In particular, it discusses: To what extent is the roof gardens being used? Why do local residents visit roof gardens? What benefits do local ...

Urban wildlife management

Examining the full range of issues surrounding the presence or absence of wildlife in urban communities, Urban Wildlife Management provides a basic framework to give a deeper understanding of those factors that promote or prevent the presence of wildlife in urban areas. This book discusses the ...

Urban tree utilization project: Final report

This report summarizes the collective accomplishments of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Minnesota Shade Tree Advisory Committee (MnSTAC) from summer 1991 through winter 1994 in identifying and developing increased uses for urban tree residue. The work consisted of nine ...

Urban tree residues: Results of the first national inventory

This national resource assessment of urban tree and landscape residue is designed to provide important baseline data to assist the arboriculture and urban forestry industries in meeting increasing social and regulatory pressures. Twenty-three state legislatures plus the District of Columbia have ...

Urban tree residue: An assessment of wood residue from tree removal and trimming operations in the seven-county metro area of Minnesota

This report is a result of phase one work on the issue of urban tree material as residue. Where does it come from? How much is there in an average year? What form is it in-tops, brush, limbs, chips, logs and stumps? What happens to it? And what are the principle obstacles to handling this stream ...

Reaching woodland owners online: Current approaches and recommended future directions for Minnesota

Over 40% of Minnesota’s forest land, totaling about 5.3 million acres, is owned and controlled by individuals and families. The land management decisions of the 140,000 family forest owners in Minnesota (Birch 1996) have important impacts on the state’s economy, ecosystems, and quality of life. ...

Public response to the urban forest in inner-city busness districts

Revitalization programs are under way in many inner-city business districts. An urban forestry program can be an important element in creating an appealing consumer environment, yet it may not be considered a priority given that there are often many physical improvements needs. This research ...

Professional development for natural resource education: Florida's wildland fire outreach program

A program to educate the citizens of Florida about the risk of wildfire and how they can reduce their risk was developed by a partnership of agencies and organizations. The information was delivered in high-risk communities by Cooperative Extension Agents and Division of Forestry field staff. ...

Probability models for predicting local water quality regulations in the southern United States

Zoning restrictions and other land use regulations that may significantly impact natural resource-based industries traditionally have been the responsibility of local governments in the United States. This study uses a logistic regression model to estimate the influence of spatial and demographic ...

Evidence of the effects of water quality on residential land prices

We use hedonic techniques to show that water quality has a significant effect on property values along the Chesapeake Bay. We calculate the potential benefits from an illustrative (but limited) water quality improvement, and we calculate an upper bound to the benefits from a more widespread ...

Estimating contingent values for protection from wildland fire using a two-stage decision framework

The ongoing expansion of human populations into wildland areas dominated by flammable vegetation, and the concomitant increased frequency of uncontrolled wildfires that result in losses of property and human lives, has raised new questions about the optimal level of fire protection. The morphing of ...

Determining development density using the Urban Carrying Capacity Assessment System

As the urban population increases, so do diverse urban problems and concerns including issues of servicing large numbers of people within existing infrastructures, as a result of over-development and over-concentration. Environmental problems, particularly air and water pollution, have become more ...

Certification of sustainable forest management practices: A global perspective on why countries certify

In this paper, we examine national conditions that encourage the growth of a private regulatory environmental system to govern forests. Economic, institutional and social capital variables for 117 countries are used to examine factors determining forest certification under the Forest Stewardship ...

At risk: South Carolina's "isolated" wetlands

This report compiles information about the wetlands currently at risk in South Carolina, the basis and need for state action, and finally the features of effective, as well as ineffective, wetlands permitting programs. The report’s goal is to promote public awareness of some of South Carolina’s ...

Nonindustrial private landowners, fires, and the wildland-urban interface

We estimate the value to a non-industrial forest landowner of information about the magnitude of fire arrival rates. A simulation based on a model from Amacher et al. [Amacher, G., Malik, A., Haight, R., in press. Not getting burned: the importance of fire prevention in forest management. Land ...

Guidance for noise reduction provided by tree belts

The effects of noise reduction of six tree belts were examined. An amplifier was placed in front of each tree belt, while a noise meter was placed at various heights and distances behind the tree belt. Net noise reduction effect termed as "relative attenuation" was obtained by subtracting the sound ...

Goals, obstacles and effective strategies of wildfire mitigation programs in the wildland-urban interface

The dramatic expansion into the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) places property, natural assets, and human life at risk from wildfire destruction. The U.S. National Fire Plan encourages communities to implement laws and outreach programs for pre-fire planning to mitigate the risk to area residents. ...

Fuels and fire in land management planning: Part 1. Forest-fuel classification

This report describes a way to collect and classify the total fuel complex within a planning area. The information can be used as input for appraising and rating probable fire behavior and calculating expected costs and losses from various land uses and management alternatives, reported separately ...

Foraging of gray squirrels on an urban-rural gradient: Use of the GUD to assess anthropogenic impact

Responses of organisms to urbanization may involve adjustments in behavior. To qualify such behavioral plasticity we measured the degree to which gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) exploited sunflower seeds in pans distributed over an urban-rural gradient of 78 sites in Virginia. Our objective ...

Fire science for rainforests

Forest fires are growing in size and frequency across the tropics. Continually eroding fragmented forest edges, they are unintended ecological disturbances that transcend deforestation to degrade vast regions of standing forest, diminishing ecosystem services and the economic potential of these ...

Creating defensible space in the wildland-urban interface: The influence of values on perceptions and behavior

We examined the effect that value orientation to forests and wildland fire management has on an individual’s decision to create defensible space around his or her residence in the wildland–urban interface. Using data from a mail-back questionnaire, respondents in north central Minnesota were ...

Comparing production function models for wildfire risk analysis in the wildland-urban interface

Wildfires create damages in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) that total hundreds of millions of dollars annually in the United States. Understanding how fires are produced in built-up areas near and within fire prone landscapes requires evaluating and quantifying the roles that humans play in ...

A practical approach to assessing structure, function, and value of street tree populations in small communities

This study demonstrates an approach to quantify the structure, benefits, and costs of street tree populations in resource-limited communities without tree inventories. Using the city of Davis, California, U.S., as a model, existing data on the benefits and costs of municipal trees were applied to ...

A guide to environmentally friendly landscaping: Florida yards and neighborhoods handbook

This handbook on the Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Program provides helpful concepts, tools and techniques for creating your own Florida Yard. You'll learn the basics of designing a landscape featuring carefully selected plants suited to our climate, natural conditions and wildlife. Tips on ...

A conceptual framework for the study of human ecosystems in urban areas

The need for integrated concepts, capable of satisfying natural and social scientists and supporting integrated research, motivates a conceptual framework for understanding the role of humans in ecosystems. The question is how to add humans to the ecological models used to understand urban ...

Identified benefits of community trees and forests

Values, functions, goods and services produced by community trees and forests can be evaluated for economic and quality of life components. While quality of life values are difficult to quantify, some of the economic values can suggest current and future negative or positive cash flows. In ...

The ease of ignition of 13 landscape mulches

The ease of ignition of 13 commonly used landscape mulches was evaluated. Mulches have different ignition potentials based on several factors, including the length of exposure to heat and to the ignition source. Some materials ignited more frequently when exposed to a lit propane torch for 15 ...

Surburban wildlife: Lessons, challenges, and opportunities

The United States, as well as most developed and many developing nations worldwide, is becoming increasingly urban and suburban. Although urban, suburban, and commercial development account for less than one percent to just over 20% of land use among states, 50–90% of the residents of those states ...

Spatio-temporal wildland arson crime functions

Wildland arson creates damages to structures and timber and affects the health and safety of people living in rural and wildland urban interface areas. We develop a model that incorporates temporal autocorrelations and spatial correlations in wildland arson ignitions in Florida. A Poisson ...

Motivations for the forestry industry to participate in collaborative ecosystem management initiatives

The role of industry participation in collaborative ecosystem approaches to management initiatives has received limited attention. We first review the literature describing the role of industry in ecosystem management (EM) collaborations, and present a framework for investigating the motivations ...

Membership matters: comparing members and non-members of NIPF owner organizations in southwest Wisconsin, USA

We surveyed members of two nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) owner organizations and non-members in southwest Wisconsin to learn their views and experiences on a range of forest ownership and management issues. The two organizations were the Sustainable Woods Cooperative (SWC) and the Wisconsin ...

Measuring rural homeowners' willingness to pay for land conservation easements

Rapid growth of rural communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Macon County, North Carolina has been giving rise to concerns over declining environmental quality and increasing need for land-use policy. This paper examines willingness to pay (WTP) for hypothetical conservation easements as an ...

Vacant and abandoned property: Remedies for acquisition and redevelopment

In June the Lincoln Institute convened a roundtable of experts from around the country to examine how and why property ownership and title problems exacerbate abandonment. The group debated the merits of public policy intervention, identifi ed policies with the greatest potential for success, and ...

Urbanization effects on tree growth in the vicinity of New York City

Plants in urban ecosystems are exposed to many pollutants and higher temperatures, CO2 and nitrogen deposition than plants in rural areas'. Although each factor has a detrimental or beneficial influence on plant growth6, the net effect of all factors and the key driving variables are unknown. We ...

An analysis of the public discourse about urban sprawl in the United States: Monitoring concern about a major threat to forests

Urban sprawl has been identified as a serious threat to forests and other natural areas in the United States, and public concern about the impacts of sprawling development patterns has grown in recent years. The prominence of public concern about sprawl is germane to planners, managers, and ...

Alternatives to sprawl

As a part of this effort, on March 22, 1995,The Brookings Institution, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the National Trust for Historic Preservation cosponsored a day-long conference entitled 'Alternatives to Sprawl.' The speakers represented a wide range of expertise, affiliation and ...

Third national report on human exposure to environmental chemicals

The National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals provides an ongoing assessment of the U.S. population's exposure to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring. Biomonitoring is the assessment of human exposure to chemicals by measuring the chemicals or their metabolites in human ...

Wildlife as valuable natural resources vs. intolerable pests: a suburban wildlife management model

Management of wildlife in suburban environments involves a complex set of interactions between both human and wildlife populations. Managers need additional tools, such as models, that can help them assess the status of wildlife populations, devise and apply management programs, and convey this ...

Wildland-urban interface: Challenges and opportunities

The wildland-urban interface (WUI), commonly described as the area where urban areas meet and interact with rural lands (Vince et al., 2005), includes the edges of large cities and small communities, areas where homes and other structures are intermixed with forests and other land uses, and islands ...

Simulating changes in forest recreation demand and associated economic impacts due to fire and fuels management activities

The objective of this study is to simulate the linkages from fire and fuels management activities to changes in forest recreation demand, and ultimately to regional economic impacts. Using available survey data collected in New Mexico (United States) during the summer of 2001, a pooled travel cost ...

Schools for successful communities: An element of smart growth

This publication explains why and how communities should employ smart growth planning principles to build schools that better serve and support students, staff, parents, and the entire community. It presents examples of supportive state and local policies, as well as case studies from around the ...

Roadless areas of the southern appalachians: What we've lost and what we stand to lose

This report profiles some of the roadless areas we have lost in the Southern Appalachian national forests prior to the enactment of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, and just a few of the roadless areas we stand to lose should the rule be reversed.

The role of arboriculture in a healthy social ecology

In urban communities, arboriculture clearly contributes to the health of the biological ecosystem; does it contribute to the health of the social ecosystem as well? Evidence from studies in inner-city Chicago suggests so. In a series of studies involving over 1,300 person–space observations, 400 ...

The interface of policy research and the policy development process: challenges posed to the forestry community

Researchers are increasingly being forced to consider how their research findings can result in tangible impacts thereby presenting a considerable challenge to those seeking to achieve those impacts as a consequence of policy changes. The policy change process is subject to a bewildering array ...

The influence of urbanization on timberland use by forest type in the Southern United States

We use a modified multinomial logit approach to quantify the influence of urbanization on timberland use in general and by forest type in eight southern states in the U.S. between 1992 and 1997. Our results show that urbanization, economic returns, demographics, economic growth, and land quality ...

The increasing influence of urban environments on U.S. forest management

The expansion of urban land promises to have an increasingly significant influence on U.S. forest management in the coming decades. Percent of the coterminous United States classified as urban increased from 2.5% in 1990 to 3.1% in 2000, an area about the size of Vermont and New Hampshire ...

Urban wildlands fire, Pebble Beach, California

On May 31, 1987, fire escaped from an illegal campfire in the Del Monte Forest in Pebble Beach, California. The resulting fire burned 160 acres and destroyed 31 structures causing an estimated damage of approximately $18,000,000. There were 18 injuries, including 15 firefighters and 3 civilians. ...

The state of the nation's ecosystems: Measuring the lands, waters, and living resources of the United States [Summary and highlights]

The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems provides a way to 'take the pulse' of America's lands and waters and living resources. It identifies what should be measured, counted, and reported so that decision makers and the public can understand the changes that are occurring on the American landscape, ...

Planning and managing for recreation in the wildland-urban interface

This chapter provides an overview of managing and planning for recreation in the wildland-urban interface. It will explain the most important issues, concepts, and methods for nature-based recreation management in these areas. Moreover, it will go beyond simply helping managers work with ...

Federal Technology Transfer 2005

A compilation of over 30 technology developments invented in America's federal labs in 2005.

Federal Technology Transfer 2004

A compilation of over 20 technology developments invented in America's federal labs in 2004.

Emerging issues along urban-rural interfaces: Linking science and society

The following papers and abstracts represent the tangible outputs from an international conference on natural resource issues at the urban/rural interface that was held in Atlanta during March, 2205. The reasons for holding the conference were threefold. Given the immense potential for ...

Economic values at the fringe: Land use and forestry in the wildland-urban interface

The role of economics at the wildland-urban interface supplants other theoretical constructs associated with forested land-use change. There are no silvicultural or environmental theories that explain forest clearing for residential purposes. These are clearly anthropocentric phenomena explained ...

Ecological assessment and planning in the wildland-urban interface: A landscape perspective

This chapter introduces a holistic approach to land-use management decisions and to evaluate the effect of development on natural systems at a landscape level. It also applies ecosystem management to identify key physical, ecological, and cultural sites in the landscape, to evaluate proposed ...

Developing land while retaining environmental values: A modern search for the grail

Our increasing appreciation of the concepts of sustainable development and smart growth may show us a new pathway to reconciliation of human and natural systems. Developers, planners, and public officials are paying increasing attention to forms of urban expansion that weave townscapes and ...

CanVis Visual Simulation Kit [CD-ROM]

This two CD collection contains photo editing software and a how to guide for creating visual simulations of proposed design and management scenarios.

Assessing the educational needs and interests of the Hispanic population: The role of extension

Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States and face unique problems concerning language and citizenship. However, institutions do not yet know how best to deliver services to this group or understand what services are needed. Although many programs designed for Hispanics ...

An overview of the New York Metropolitan Flora project

This paper provides an overview of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s New York Metropolitan Flora (NYMF) project. Previous efforts to document the flora of the New York metropolitan region are reviewed, including the contributions of many notable botanists (e.g., Arthur Cronquist, Merritt Fernald, Asa ...

Land-use planning and zoning at the wildland-urban interface

This chapter discusses the basic concepts of planning, zoning, and growth management. It also suggests ways in which these methods and techniques may be used by communities and influenced by natural resource mangers to effectuate patterns of land use that are protective of the natural resources ...

Invasive plants in the wildland-urban interface

For the purposes of this chapter, invasive plants are defined as those species that have spread or are likely to spread into native flora or managed plant systems, develop self-sustaining populations, and become dominant or disruptive to those systems. Species that are adventive or are persistent ...

Introduction: The city is moving to our frontier's doorstep

This chapter introduces the issues and challenges of the wildland-urban interface. It gives an introduction to planning and managing growth, human dimensions and the interface, and conserving and managing forests for ecological services and benefits and forests that are under different ownerships.

Patterns of species richness in eight northeastern United States Cities

In this paper, the native and nonnative floras of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Louis urban areas are compared, and overall native diversity and nonnative diversity are correlated with a variety of factors. A total of 4,159 species has been ...

Overview of policies influencing the wildland-urban interface

This chapter reviews selected policies that affect the interface and the conservation and management of its forests. It begins with a summary of the effects of urban sprawl on forest management, the economy, and the environment. Next, it explores policies influencing the wildland-urban interface ...

Oklahoma nonindustrial private forest landowner questionnaire

Private and public forest landowners are trying to meet resource needs through appropriate land management. Policymakers are charged with the task of developing and evaluating policies that will meet the diverse needs of the public. Policymakers and extension personnel also need input from ...

Growth management survey

This survey will gather views and opinions about Florida’s system of growth management. The survey has 38 questions and may take up to 30 minutes to complete. The survey is not intended to be a poll of public opinion or a representative measure of the views of various groups. It is being ...