URBAN SILVICULTURE

Urban forests comprise “all trees in the city, on public and private property, and within the many land uses one finds in cities and towns” (NUFAC USFS 2015). Frequently overlooked in cities, however, are the forested natural areas amongst the trees. I would argue that urban forest natural areas meet the criteria and traditional defintions of forests, and therefore, opportunity exists to draw from rural forest management and silviculture methods to reposition urban forested natural area management. With this understanding, I have developed research experiments that test novel conservation strategies designed to facilitate the establishment of native forest communities in urban and degraded sites.

ARTICLE: URBAN SILVICULTURE AND DESIGN

ARTicle: THE URBAN SILVICULTURE FRAMEWORK

ARTICLE: NORTHEAST URBAN SILVICULTURE WORKSHOP

URBAN SILVICULTURE PRIMER & CASE STUDIES