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This science digest includes a curated round-up of news, products, findings, recordings, and upcoming events prepared by the USDA Forest Service National Urban Forest Technology & Science Delivery Team. Please forward or filter for your network and send us links to your cool stuff for adding to the next mailing.

(The following links were all accessed safely on the date of this mailing)

• Federation of American Scientists – A national framework for sustainable urban forestry to combat extreme heat
• The Guardian – US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
• Fox News 6 – Milwaukee awarded $12M tree canopy grant for planting, maintenance (Tom Perez)
• Life Hacker – How to figure out if the trees in your yard are worth anything
• Maryland Matters – Tree equity in Maryland: Federal funds promote access to green space
• New York Times – Earth Day – Why aren’t we saving the urban forests (opinion)
• The New Yorker – Canoeing in a superfund site (Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn)
• Phys.org – Biodiversity loss may accelerate ecosystem destabilization
• Science Alert – Being in nature has a profound effect on how you experience time
• Science Friday – How trees keep D.C. and Baltimore cool
• Seattle Times – The old-growth expert and the forests he vowed to protect (YouTube)
• Time Magazine – How America is making tree equity a climate solution for cities
• Trust for Public Land – Statement from TPL on the passage of the Outdoors for All Act
• City of Vaughn, Canada – Planning for the future of Vaughan’s trees (YouTube)
• The Washington post – Mapping America’s access to nature, neighborhood by neighborhood

• White House – Biden-Harris Administration launches Conservation.gov including interactive Atlas of “nature-deprived communities” and locally led efforts to conserve lands and waters.
• House Committee on Natural Resources – House passes historic bipartisan EXPLORE Act, expands outdoor recreation across America
• USDA Forest Service – Spanish translation of Urban Tree Monitoring: A Resource Guide
• NEW – Society of American Foresters – Certified Urban and Community Forester credential
• NEW – The Threes Rule website – 330300rule.com
• Yale Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability – Funding urban forestry (Beattra Wilson)
• Better Ground – Trees for Resilience Toolkit (Puget Sound)
• Book release – Racist Roots: How racism has affected trees and people (Christine Carmichael)
• Urban Wood Economy – A second life for city trees: Transforming urban wood into sustainable furniture (blog post)
• City of Tacoma, Washington – Proposed Amenity Space and Tree Requirements; Full landscaping code updates to promote Housing and Trees
• International Society of Arboriculture – Journal of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry
• Urban and Community Forestry Society – City Trees Magazine and UCFS Learning Series
• Nature of Cities Gazette – Global roundtable and essay crosstalk (features NYC Field Station)
• i-Tree News – Tools for assessing and managing community trees and forests
• Vibrant Cities Lab – Home base for urban forest research, advocacy, and action
• NEW – The urban intramural forest in the Urban Middle School (Spanish)

• The Nature of Cities Festival Registration and Program – April 15-26 (virtual)
• American Forests – Faith in Tree Equity – April 25 @2:00 ET
• Green Pocket Forests – Miyawaki Forest Academy – April 27-28 (virtual)
• PlanIT Geo – Mapping the 3-30-300 rule for actionable city greening – May 1
• European Forum on Urban Forests – 26^th annual meeting – May 22-24, Zagreb, Croatia
• Sustainable Forest Initiative – Forests for the Future Annual Conference – June 4-7, Atlanta
• USDA National Urban Ag Initiative – National Urban Agriculture Conference – August 4-6, Detroit
• Arbor Day Foundation – Partners in Community Forestry Conference – November 20-21, Chicago

• Campbell, Lindsay K.; Fremantle, Chis; Maddox, David; Svendsen, Erika; et al. 2024. Transdisciplinary and arts-centered approaches to stewardship and sustainability of urban nature. Landscape Research.
• Derrien, Monika; Brinkley, Weston; Blahna, Dale; Rodríguez, Alberto; et al. 2024. Joining collective impact and community science: a framework for core collaborative community science. Ecology and Society.
• Gill, Kamni. 2024. Visible and invisible forest: The cultivation of share in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
• Kirkland, John; Kline, Jeff; Munanura, Ian. 2024. From timber to tourism: Perceptions in rural communities about changing forest-based economies. Science Findings 265. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.
• Kondo, Michelle C.; Locke, Dexter; Hazer, Meghan; Mendelson, Tamar; et al. 2024. A greening theory of change: How neighborhood greening impacts adolescent health disparities. American Journal of Community Psychology.
• Li, Hansen; Browning, Matthew H.E.M.; Bardhan, Mondira; Ying Mingue et al. 2024. Nature connectedness connects the visibility of trees through windows and mental wellbeing: a study on the “visible trees” component of the 3-30-300 rule. International Journal of Environmental Health Research.
• Mockrin, Miranda H.; Schumann, Ronald L.; Whittaker, Joshua; Gaither, Cassandra Johnson; et al. 2023. Creating Fire-Adapted Communities Through Recovery: Case Studies from the United States and Australia. Journal of Extreme Events.
• Motomura, Monica; Koohsari, Mohammad Jaad; Ishii, Kaori; Shibata, Ai; et al. 2024. Park proximity and older adults; physical activity and sedentary behaviors in dense urban areas. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
• Percival, Glynn C.; Percival, Christopher D. 2024. Evaluation of heat tolerance in foliar tissue of Acer genotypes. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry.
• Petriello, Michael A.; Redmore, Lauren; Sène, Aby L.; Katju, Dhananjaya; et al. 2024. The scope of empowerment for conservation and communities. Conservation Biology.
• Petersen, Julia K.; Winkler, Richelle L.; Mockrin, Miranda H. 2024. Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID‐19 Pandemic. Rural Sociology. 
• Ponte, Sarah; Oishi, A. Christopher; Sonti, Nancy F.; Locke, Dexter H.; Phillips, Tuana H. et al. 2024. Interactions between management context and tree water use influence stormwater management potential of urban forests. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
• Rahman, Mohammad A.; Arndt, Stefan; Bravo, Felipe; Cheung, Pui K.; van Doorn, Natalie; et al. 2024. More than a canopy cover metric: Influence of canopy quality, water-use strategies and site climate on urban forest cooling potential. Landscape and Urban Planning.
• Roman, Lara A.; Nguyen, Vi D.; Locke, Dexter H.; Mincey, Sarah K.; et al. 2017. Best practices for yard tree distribution programs. Arborist News.
• Schumann III, Ronald L.; Emrich, Christoopher T.; Butsic, Van; Mockrin, Miranda H. et al. 2024. The geography of social vulnerability and wildfire occurrence (1984-2018) in the conterminous USA. Natural Hazards.

• Forest Service – Urban Forest Connections – monthly webinar series. Next up: Food Deserts to Food Forests in Dry Climates: Models in Action
• Date: May 8 (1:00 ET)
• Forest Service – Webinar recording and resources: Wildfire Effects and Recovery in Urban Ecosystems
• NEW – Forest Service – Urban forest patch viewer: Conserving forests in cities (Nancy Sonti)
• Arbor Day Foundation – Environmental Justice series (with Christine Carmichael)
• On-line Course (free) – Nature in the city: turning knowledge into urban forestry practice
• On-line (free) Self-Learning Series on YouTube – i-Tree Open Academy
• Podcast – Internet of Nature
• Podcast – Completely Arbortrary – About trees and related topics
• Podcast – Plant a Trillion Trees – Stories from leaders in our industry
• Podcast – This Old Tree
• Webinar series and science briefs – Rooted in Research – Northern Research Station
• Webinar series – Beyond Trees Network – USDA. Forest Service International Programs
• Webinar series – Penn State Extension Urban Forestry archive.
• Webinar series – TREE Fund Webinars 
• Webinar series – UMass Urban Forestry Today archive.
• Webinar series – Urban and Community Forestry Society – UCFS Learning Series
• Webinar series – Urban Ecology Collaborative (YouTube recordings)

• Partners in Community Forestry Conference, Chicago – Call for session proposals

Deadline: May 6

• Alliance for Community Trees, Chicago – Presentation Proposals

Deadline: May 6

• Urban & Community Forestry Society, Chicago – Call for Presentations

Deadline: May 15

• Environmental Protection Agency – Community Change Grants NOFO (rolling applications)

Deadline: November 21 (open now for submissions)

• National Science Foundation – Funding for “urban” research

Deadline: Various and rolling

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