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This science digest includes a curated round-up of news, products, findings, recordings, and upcoming events prepared by the USDA Forest Service National Urban Forest Technology & Science Delivery Team. Please forward or filter for your network and send us links to your cool stuff for adding to the next mailing.



(The following links were all accessed safely on the date of this mailing)

• The Augusta Chronicle – Trees are proven to lower the temperature in the environment and in people’s moods
• Bluewater Baltimore – Change in tree law means a greener Baltimore
• Burnett County Sentinel – Urban forestry in NW Wisconsin?
• Corporate Knights – There’s an urban tree revolution underway in North America
• Daily Herald – Chicago suburban communities look to address tree inequity, build climate resilience
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Urban Forestry Fund for Free Trees
• Vermont Biz – From tree to table
• Wired – Only the hardiest trees can survive today’s urban inferno

• USDA Forest Service – Community Forest Conservation Program 2024 Funded Grants
• Society of American Foresters – Updated policy on Urban and Community Forestry
• America Adapts – Center for Heat Resilient Communities gets a NOAA grant (recording)
• The Nature Conservancy – Philadelphia Citywide Heat Ride (Story Map)
• PlanIT-Geo – Unpacking urban forestry’s new benchmark: The 3+30+300 Rule
• NEW: Oregon State University – Municipal wood waste utilization study
• Tiny Travelers – Find your forest (children’s book)
• International Society of Arboriculture – Journal of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry
• Urban and Community Forestry Society – City Trees Magazine and Job Board
• Nature of Cities Gazette – Global roundtable and essay crosstalk (features NYC Field Station)
• i-Tree News – Tools for assessing and managing community trees and forests
• Vibrant Cities Lab – Home base for urban forest research, advocacy, and action
• NEW – Trees are tools for safer streets

• Children & Nature Network – Vitamin N Challenge
• American Climate Corps – Your climate career starts here
• One Tree Planted – Urban Forestry campaign
• Urban Wood Network – Webinar: Incorporating different materials into urban wood products
• Date: July 10
• American Hort – Cultivate’24 – July 13-16, Columbus
• Esri – Esri User Conference – July 15-19, San Diego
• Arbocity – Urban Tree Diversity Conference – October 24-25, Madrid, Spain
• Ecological Society of America – Annual Meeting – August 4-9, Long Beach, CA
• International Society of Arboriculture – Annual Conference – August 12-14, Atlanta
• American Society of Landscape Architects – Conference on Landscape Architecture – October 6-9, Washington DC
• Arbor Day Foundation - Partners in Community Forestry Conference – November 20-21, Chicago

• Eisenman, Theodore S.; Roman, Lara A.; Östberg, Johan; Campbell, Lindsay K.; Svendsen, Erika. 2024. Beyond the Golden Shovel: recommendations for a successful urban tree planting initiative. Journal of the American Planning Association.
• Endreny, Theodore A. 2024. Mapping inequities in green cooling services. Nature Cities.
• Fawcett, Ryan; Kane, Brian; Bloniarz, David V. 2024. Training volunteers to prune recently planted trees. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry.
• Keena, Melody A. 2024. Effects of temperature on the survival of spotted lanternfly active life stages when held without food. Agricultural and Forest Entomology.
• Lee, KangJae; Aronson, Myla F.J.; Clark, Jeffrey A.G.; Hoover, Fushcia-Ann et al. 2024. Limitations of existing park quality instruments and suggestions for future research. Landscape and Urban Planning.
• Mockrin, Miranda H.; Johnson, Michelle L. 2024. Local government perspectives on housing buyouts in New York after Hurricane Sandy. Environmental Hazards. 
• Sonti, Nancy F.; Locke, Dexter H.; Avolio, Meghan L.; Burghardt, Karin T.; Chalfant, Fred; Grove, J. Morgan; Seo, Sam; Swan, Christopher M.; Rodbell, Phil. 2024. Street tree diversity reveals a legacy of redlining. City Trees Magazine.
• Qi, Saidan; Cheng, Zhongqui; Hallett, Richard; Egendorf, Sara P. et al. 2024. Feasibility of constructed soils for tree planting: A pilot study in New York City. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
• Willis, Elise M.; Koeser, Andrew K.; Clarke, Mysha; Hansen, Gail et al. 2024. Greening development: Reducing urban tree canopy loss through incentives. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
• Zhao, Jiaying; Radke, Jade; Chen, Frances S.; Sachdeva, Sonya; Gershman, Samuel J.; Luo, Yu. 2024. How do we reinforce climate action? Sustainability Science.

• Forest Service – Urban Forest Connections – monthly webinar series. Next up:  Indigenous Voices and Stewardship in Urban Landscapes
• Date: July 10 (1:00 ET)
• Forest Service – Webinar recording and resources: Talk to Your Nursery: Tree Supply, Tree Quality, and Contract Growing
• On-line Course (free) – Nature in the city: turning knowledge into urban forestry practice
• On-line (free) Self-Learning Series on YouTube – i-Tree Open Academy
• Podcast – Internet of Nature
• Podcast – Completely Arbortrary – About trees and related topics
• Podcast – Plant a Trillion Trees – Stories from leaders in our industry
• Webinar series – Urban Ecology Collaborative (YouTube recordings)
• Webinar series – Beyond Trees Network – USDA. Forest Service International Programs
• Webinar series and science briefs – Rooted in Research – Changing Hydrology in Cities
• Webinar series – TREE Fund Webinars Webinar series – Penn State Extension Urban Forestry archive
• Webinar series – UMass Urban Forestry Today archive

• FAO – 4^th Latin American and Caribbean Forum on Urban Forests – Call for papers

Deadline: June 30

• NRCS – Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production

Deadline: July 7

• National Science Foundation – Funding for “urban” research

Deadline: Various and rolling

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