Developing and Using Urban Forest
Management Plans

Resource List of Book and Articles

7.23.2008

Articles

Planning for healthy trees: careful forethought is required if a community wants to plant and maintain a sustainable urban forest, American Forests, Jim Swab - Spring 2008, The American Planning Association, American Forests, International Society of Arboriculture, and U.S. Forest Service identify principles to guide planning for urban and community forestry. The resulting document divided ideas into general, planning, and design principles. Click here read this article.

Planning for Active Management - Phillip Rodbell, City Trees January/February 2005 38
This article provides and overview of tasks to establish a firm administrative framework for management. When completed, these activities yield a single comprehensive plan and policy manual critical to establishing a well-managed and supported program of care for community trees and the urban forest as a whole.

Strategic planning in urban forestry: a 21st century paradigm shift for small town Canada -
Wassenaer, P.J.E. van, Schaeffer, L., and Kenney, W.A., Forestry Chronicle 76(2):241-245, 2000.
To facilitate the implementation of urban forest management plans in small communities, a simple strategic planning framework is presented.

Galvin, Michael F., Becky Wilson, and Marian Honeczy. 2000. “Maryland’s Forest Conservation Act: a Process for Urban Greenspace Protection during the Development Process.” Journal of Arboriculture 26, No. 5 (September): 275-280.

Urban forestry program planning: Developing a plan to fit your needs - Casey, C., Wisconsin Urban & Community Forests 4(4):7-9, 1997, This article examines the process for developing urban forestry strategic and management plans.

Tree City USA Bulletins, National Arbor Day Foundation
How to Plan for Management, Bulletin # 29
How to Manage Community Natural Areas, Bulletin # 27
These bulletins are available for $3 each.

Books

Guidelines for Preparing Urban Plans - Larz Anderson; 1995. This book outlines a comprehensive step by step process through plan preparation. Citing examples from across the country, the book shows how to prepare, review, adopt, and implement urban plans. Click here for details.

Environmental Land Use Planning and Management - Randolph, John; 2004, Washington, D.C.: Island Press. Dr Cecil Konijnendijk, Dr Kjell Nilsson, Dr Thomas B Randrup, and Dr Jasper Schipperijn (Eds), Published by Springer Publishing, 2005. Of particular interest is the chapter, Landscape Ecology, Urban Forestry, and Wetlands. This is an exceptional text book on urban forest management in Europe. Fifty-nine authors from 21 countries contributed to the text. 

Handbook of Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast, Edited by John E. Kuser, Chapter 6 Planning and design, Published 2000, Urban Forestry Planning and Managing Urban Greenspaces
Robert W. Miller, Prentice Hall, 1997

Literature reviews

Literature Review and Summary Report Urban Forest Management and Public Works:
Improving Communication and Building Capacity, February, 2007; American Public Works Association
Click here for the PDF.

Planning for Urban and Community Forestry: A Literature Review. American Planning
Association. 2006. This literature review contains books, articles, and government document citations. Texts were chosen for the review based on several criteria, including relevance to the topic of municipal planning, timeliness, and the ability to convey concepts accurately and concisely to an audience of planners.  http://www.planning.org/research/forestry/litreview.htm