Click on the following links to keep up-to-date with current best management practices, informative articles and publications by experts in the field, and cutting-edge urban forestry news.
The Road to a a Thoughful Street Tree Master Plan
This exciting, new publication was co-authored by Ken Simons, a landscape architect, and Gary Johnson, a professor of urban forestry, as a primer and gude of sorts for communities that have the opportunity to develop or change, yet may not have the expertise or background to it effectively. Written as a very pragmatic guide to selecting and placing trees in streetscapes, it emphasizes not only the architectural nature of street tree design, but it goes to great lenghts to help the user create an extensive list of credentials that the trees must have to fulfill the design. Also available as a webcast.
UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
- Community Forestry
Extensive publications library about community forestry. Many articles on tree biology and how trees react to construction, pruning, drought, compaction, and more. Also contains articles on topics like tree values and tree benefits.
This Urban Stormwater BMP Performance Tool has been developed to provide stormwater professionals with easy access to approximately 220 studies assessing the performance of over 275 BMPs.
Urban Forestry South Expo
Research, presentations, and papers having to do with urban forestry in the southeast. Topics include inventorying, canopy studies, emerald ash borer control, master gardener modules, carbon credits, tree failure, surveys, and much more.
Drought and Landscape Plants by Bruce Fraedrich, Ph.D.
Discusses plant health care in drought and the uses and effectiveness of mulching, irrigation, fertilization, proper pruning, and integrated pest management. Also discusses symptoms of plants suffering from drought.
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