from i-tree to urban fia: a new partnership for measuring the nation's forests

US Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis

Urban October 2016

Urban FIA - One Iconic City at a Time

Forest Inventory & Analysis

photo by Ben Kimball

The Nation’s Forest Census!

Status Update – Why Urban FIA?Farm Bill 8301 subparagraph 2:

“Implement an annualized inventory of trees in urban settings, including the status and trends of trees and forests, and assessments of their ecosystem services,

values, health, and risk to pests and disease.”

Status Update - ImplementationUrban Areas / Urban Clusters

25 Cities will be operational by 2017

Census-Based Statistical Areas

Status Update - Implementation

Status Update – Implementation

FIA

We are FIA

Status Update – Urban Survey

• What?

• Who?

• Where?

• When?

• Pre-testing a survey instrument to measure attitudes and behaviors of urban residential owners regarding their trees and other green spaces

• Private urban residential owners with some type of green space (yard, garden, trees)

• 3 Pilot cities– Austin, TX with Texas A&M Forest Service– Madison, WI with the Wisconsin DNR– Baltimore, MD with the Urban Field Station

• Pilot surveys began December 2015 with results from Austin expected by April 2016

Want more information? Contact Brett Butler, NWOS coordinator, bbutler01@fs.fed.us

Status Update – UTPOProgress:

• Lots of interest in Urban Wood Flows

• Have identified interested parties in 5 cities

• Baltimore field station has taken the lead

• Identifying where FIA fits in best

• Working with John to find a path forward

Status Update – Tools