Example Urban Forest Management Plans

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URL

Source

Description

Forestry Case Studies

http://www.planning.org/research/forestry/casestudies.htm

American Planning Association

Examples illustrating best practices in planning for urban and community forestry. Most linked resources are planning documents but not urban forest management plans.

Urban Forestry South Expo - Urban Forestry Strategic and Management Plans

http://www.urbanforestrysouth.org/resources/management-plans

Centers for Urban and Interface Forestry, USDA Forest Service

A plan writing tool and a library of plans, mainly from the southeastern US

Title

URL

Source

Description

Green Redmond 20 Year Forest Management Plan

http://www.redmond.gov/Green/greenredmond.asp

City of Redmond, WA

2009 plan for sustainable management of Redmond’s 1,035 acres of forested parkland.

Strategic Urban Forest Management Plan 2008-2028

http://guelph.ca/living.cfm?smocid=2665

City of Guelph, CA

Twenty year framework for developing and implementing a series of 5-yr UF management plans. 2008

Urban Forest Strategic Management Plan Town of Oakville, Ontario, Canada

http://www.oakville.ca/Media_Files/forestry/2008UFSMPappendices.pdf

Town of Oakville, Ontario, Canada

2008 plan

Urban Forest Management Plan

http://www.seattle.gov/environment/documents/Final_UFMP.pdf

City of Seattle, WA

2007. Comprehensive plan, considers $ values of tree-related benefits (stormwater, air quality C sequestration, etc.)

Urban Forest Management Plan

http://www.rocklin.ca.us/government/development/planning
/publications_n_maps/
planning_for_the_future_of_rocklins_urban_forest.asp

City of Rocklin, CA

2006 plan

City of Lacey (Washington) Urban Forest Managment plan (draft)

http://www.ci.lacey.wa.us/building_and_planning/updates/
planning_commission/
draft_lacey_urban_forest_management_plan.pdf

City of Lacey, Washington

2005 plan

Portland 2004 Urban Forest Management Plan

http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=39713&a=184641

City of Portland, Oregon

2004 strategic plan

Urban Forest Action Plan 2007

http://www.portlandonline.com/shared/cfm/image.cfm?id=183008

City of Portland, Oregon

An implementation plan for the urban forest management plan.

Fort Greene Park Urban Forest Management Plan

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/trees_greenstreets/
fortgreene-urban-info/ft-greene-urban-forest-mngmt-paln.html

City of New York Parks and Recreation

2004 plan for historic park in Brooklyn

Community Forest Management Plan

http://cityofdavis.org/pcs/trees/pdfs/CFMP-Final-Sept2002.pdf

City of Davis

2002. Uses level of service to help plan implementation

USDA City of Syracuse Urban forest master plan

http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/syracuse/Pubs/Downloads/gtrne287.pdf

USDA

2001. A series of chapters put together by USDA researchers, heavy on data about the urban forest

Urban and Community Forest Master Plan

http://na.fs.fed.us/urban/inforesources/mgmtplanguide/
samplemgtplan.pdf

Town of Atwater NY

1998. Short street tree plan.