Trees planted in cities face many survival challenges, but when they thrive they make our cities healthier, less hot, and more beautiful.

An Urban Tree Canopy (UTC) assessment, which provides a measure of a community’s tree canopy cover, is important for understanding the extent of a community’s forest or tree resource.

Oaks are critical to the health and function of forest and shrubland habitats in the United States, but many native oaks are threatened with extinction in the wild.

Improving urban forests is one of the solutions to achieving several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and making cities healthier and more livable for people.

This publication provides forest resource statistics contributing to the 2020 Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment to provide current information on the Nation’s forests.

Of the myriad gifts plants provide to humanity, food is among the most visible, as everyone needs to eat, every single day.

Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history – and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely,

Contact your elected representatives and let them know how you feel about plants, our web of life, and the ecosystem services we all depend upon:

Although the effects of climate on species richness are known, regional processes
may lead to different species richness–climate relationships across continents

Building upon an initial 6000+ cities committed to GCoM at the time of the signing of the Paris Agreement, cities continue to make significant and ambitious commitments to meet the climate challenge.