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.
Each will have a title and description (or abstract); when available a URL link will provide access to the full text of the resource or a contact for acquisition.
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- Forest pests as a hazard factor in urban forests
- The urban forest resource
- Forests in the urban landscape
- Environmental impact assessment for urban natural areas
- Urban open spaces
- The making of neighborhood open spaces: Community design, development, and management of open spaces
- Strategies for political action on environmental issues
- Designation of environmentally significant areas
- Strategies for legal action on environmental issues
- Urban tree management: Survival in the 1980's
- Trees for the urban environment
- Street tree directory
- Recreational use of private lands in urban areas
- Forest experiences of fifth-grade Chicago public school students
- Caring for trees when building on wooded lots
- Urban forest social assessment
- Community forestry: a guide
- Artificial feeding stations and their effect on urban bird populations
- Prevention of tree root invasion
- Establishing new trees
- Oak wilt in Minnesota: It's still here and we're doing something about it!
- Too much mulch is not a good thing!
- Stress and secondary invaders
- Compensatory pruning...to prune or not to prune at planting, that is the question!
- City of Gaithersburg tree manual
- Trees and home construction: minimizing the impact of construction activity on trees
- Ecosystem services in urban areas
- Pre- and post-construction pruning
- Control of tree growth in the urban environment using geotextile fabric bags
- Storm damage to landscape trees: prediction, prevention, treatment
- Fitting trees and shrubs into the landscape
- Protecting trees from construction damage: a homeowner's guide
- Sustaining oak woodlands in California's urbanizing environment
- Soil microbial ecology of Oregon white oak in an urban landscape
- Arboriculture: history and development in North America
- Native for native's sake?
- Planting trees in your community
- Carbon dioxide reduction through urban forestry: guidelines for professional and volunteer tree planters
- Pacific Northwest landscape integrated pest management (IPM) manual: culture of key trees & shrubs, problem diagnosis, and management options. 2d ed
- Tree guidelines for San Joaquin Valley communities
- Tree guidelines for coastal southern California communities
- The state of urban and community forestry in California: status in 1997 and trends since 1998
- Harvest of energy-wood from urban forests
- What's wrong with topping trees?
- Storms and Trees
- "Right tree - right place": White Pine and salt tolerance
- Plant the right tree in the right place
- Development of Evade: a new co-formulation herbicide for weed management in forestry and amenity situations
- Influence of landscape components on species recruitment in cities
- 'Designing out' future problems when creating urban woodland
- Conserving wooded areas in developing communities: best management practices in Minnesota. Revised
- Does open space pay?
- Hazards from trees: a general guide
- Increasing the trustworthiness of research results: the role of computers in qualitative text analysis
- Public parks, private partners: how partnerships are revitalizing urban parks
- The impact of parks and open space on property values and the property tax base
- Indigenous plants for urban open spaces
- Trees and building energy use
- This chapter explores "the various effects that trees have on energy use (primarily their impact on heating and cooling of buildings), the ramifications of their impacts, and the potential for maximizing building energy conservation through proper planning and management."
- The interactions between urban forests and global climate change
- Software tools for estimating and modeling climate benefits provided by urban forests
- Urban forests and climate change
- Global climate change and the urban forest
- Injector-size and the time of application affects uptake of tree trunk-injected solutions
- A method for predicting the possible site of failure in trees during mechanical loading
- In order to determine if it is possible to predict the site and mode of failure under mechanical loading, different tree species were subjected to bending tests. Four species were examined: European beech, English oak, Douglas fir and Norway spruce.
- Avifaunal use of wooded streets in an urban landscape
- Constructing nature as constructing science: expertise, activist science, and public conflict in the Chicago Wilderness
- A people-centered approach to designing and managing restoration projects: insights from understanding attachment to urban natural areas
- Negotiating nature: making restoration happen in an urban park context
- Tree heights and force of fall
- Open cavity impact on stem strength
- Strength of solid tree stems
- Stem strength with closed/centered cavity
- Estimating leaning tree failures
- Estimating wind forces on tree crowns
- Tree strength and cross-sectional area
- Simple mathematical approaches to tree biomechanics
- The effects of land use in meteorological modeling: implications for assessment of future air quality scenarios
- Statutory measures for the protection and enhancement of the urban forest in Guangzhou City, China
- Public Property Tree Preservation
- Organic Mulches Affect Soil and Leaf Nutrient Levels of Young Pecan Trees
- A Short History of Urban Forestry in Europe
- Research and management for leadership in urban forestry
- Programmed tree pruning and public liability
- Urbanware: Programs for urban foresters
- Beneficial insects in integrated pest management on urban trees. Examples in northern Italy
- Anoplophora glabripennis, a recent invader from China into urban forests of the United States
- Tree monitoring protocols for Oak Park. Draft
- Visual tree assessment
- A survey of urban forestry in Britain
- Urban soils: applications and practices
- Urban forestry: comparative analysis of policies and concepts in Europe: contemporary urban forest policy-making in selected cities and countries of Europe
- Health condition and dendrochronological study of the lime trees in Kaunas City
- Arboriculture: integrated management of landscape trees, shrubs, and vines. 3rd ed
- Planting and transplanting trees and shrubs
- Planning for replanting
- Recognizing tree hazards: a photographic guide for homeowners
- Living with urban soils
- How to hire an arborist
- Trees and highways
- Deicing salt problems in the landscape
