Ecosystem Services and Urban Forestry
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Ecosystem Services and
Urban Forestry
Greg Arthaud
[email protected]
USDA Forest Service
Research & Development
Forest Service R&D
Who we are and what have we done?
Upcoming research and activities
Research needs
Forest Service R&D
Who we are and what have we done?
Upcoming research and activities
Research needs
FS R&D
– Washington Office
– Stations
Merger of North Central and Northeastern in 2007
People and Their Environments: Social
Science Supporting Natural Resource
Management and Policy
Lynne Westphal
– Project Leader
14 scientists
– Morgan Grove
– Dave Bengston
– Paul Gobster
Recent publications
•Cost of potential emerald ash borer damage in U.S communities, 2009-2019
•Using real estate records to assess forest land parcelization and
development: A Minnesota case study
•UFORE (i-Tree Eco) Analysis of Chicago
•Assessing urban forest effects and values, Chicago's urban forest
•Cultivating resilience: urban stewardship as a means to improving health and
well-being
•Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-Being Through Urban
Landscapes
Urban Forests, Environmental Quality and
Human Health
David Nowak
– Project Leader
5 scientists
– Eric Greenfield
– Robert Hoehn
– Gordon Heisler
Recent publications
•Urban and community forests of the North Central East region: Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin
•Assessing the potential for urban trees to facilitate forest tree migration in
the eastern United States
•Urban and community forests of the North Central West region: Iowa,
Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota
•Urban and community forests of the South Central East region: Alabama,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee
•UFORE (i-Tree Eco) Analysis of Chicago
•Assessing urban forest effects and values, Chicago's urban forest
State-of-the-art, peerreviewed software suite
Used for:
– Assessing street tree
populations
– Assessing urban
ecosystems
Center for Urban Forest Research
(Davis, CA)
Greg McPherson
– Project Leader
Recent Publications:
– Capturing carbon in your community: New reporting protocol for tree
planting projects.
– Trees and the clean air act: Strategic tree planting in Sacramento.
– A method for locating potential tree-planting sites in urban areas: A case
study of Los Angeles, USA.
– Hydrologic processes at the urban residential scale.
– Maybe Only God Can Make a Tree, But Only People Can Put a Price On It.
Other R&D activities
Forest Inventory & Analysis (FIA)
– Urban FIA? Price tag about $3 million/yr
Treesearch
Other R&D activities
ACES
A Community on Ecosystem Services
Multi-agency
– ACES Conference
2nd to be held in December in Phoenix
– ACES Forum
Community of Practice
Currently in development
Other R&D activities
ULTRA-Ex
– Urban Long-Term Research Areas (Exploratory)
– NSF/USFS joint funding:
Focus: research on dynamic interactions between people and
natural ecosystems in urban settings in ways that will advance
both fundamental and applied knowledge
– 21 sites funded over past 3 years
Typical grant of $250,000 to $300,000
– Locations:
Hawaii; New Jersey (Rahway River); Normal, IL; Triangle
region NC; Miami-Dade; Tampa Bay; Syracuse; Boston; Los
Angeles; Phoenix-Tucson; Cleveland; San Juan, PR; Charlotte;
DC-Baltimore-Chesapeake; Arizona gradient; Portland; FresnoClovis; Orlando
Upcoming research & activities
i-Tree additions (partial list)
– i-Tree Hydro
Effects of tree cover on water flow/quality
– i-Tree Forecast
Simulates tree data and benefits for up to 100 years.
– i-Tree Spatial
Map changes in canopy cover / ecosystem services.
– i-Tree Landscape
Proposed concept to link to regional issues
Upcoming research & activities
Northern Forest Futures Project
– revealing how today’s trends and choices can change the future
landscape of the Northeast and Midwest.
– Process:
existing assessments and inventories
scoping of trends and public issues
builds alternative futures
analyzes what those futures mean for people and forests
delivers an educational outreach that allows individuals,
organizations, and resource managers to directly assess what
difference possible lifestyle, policy and management choices make to
the well-being of their communities and forests.
Upcoming research & activities
ULTRA
– Framework is still being developed
– RFP likely to go out by end of 2010
– Very similar to LTER sites (BES, CAP)…
– Likely elements:
Funding of 6 sites
$1 million/site/year for 5 years
Mix of large urban and smaller (e.g. under
100,000 population) sites
Upcoming research & activities
Urban Waters Federal Partnership
– In development
– Focus on reconnecting urban populations with their local
water bodies.
National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP)
– Initiated by EPA and being implemented through Duke
University
– Function:
Inventory of current activities
Research needs and gap assessment
Communication (collaboration with ACES)
Ecosystem Services Task Team
Multi-agency
OSTP / CENR
Current research priorities fall into five categories:
– How do ecosystems and their variability relate to the supply of
distinct ecosystem services?
– What is the current status of key ecosystem services and how
can they be mapped?
– How do human activities at multiple spatial and temporal scales
impact the supply of distinct ecosystem services?
– How can management or altered human behaviors and
expectations mitigate impacts to the supply of distinct ecosystem
services?
– How can market and non-market values of ecosystem services
be estimated and represented in models and other tools?
In addition, one translation priority can be articulated:
– How can discoveries and research outcomes be incorporated into
a useful body of knowledge and tools for effective decision
making by both the public and private sectors?