from i-tree to urban fia: a new partnership for measuring the nation's forests
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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, [email protected]
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
