Managing Urban Forest Fear and Vegetation: Alternatives to Clearing the Trees (08-99-50-G-22)

This project surveys and analyzes the safety concerns and vegetative/privacy needs of on-site visitors to a diversity of micro-site settings in urban forests/parks.

Urban forest settings that provide for public needs of vegetative naturalness and privacy are also settings rated high for public fear and safety concerns. Clearing native vegetation may address the fear/safety concerns of these settings, but it destroys the vegetative naturalness/privacy attributes of the settings. Urban forest settings that provide for public needs of vegetative naturalness and privacy are also settings rated high for public fear and safety concerns. Clearing native vegetation may address the fear/safety concerns of these settings, but it destroys the vegetative naturalness/privacy attributes of the settings. This project surveys and analyzes the fear/safety concerns and vegetative/privacy needs of on-site visitors to a diversity of micro-site settings in urban forests/parks, in order to provide alternative management techniques to vegetation clearing of natural/privacy settings with fear/safety concerns.

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