Majewsky, Riley

1. US Forest Service
Forest Inventory and Analysis
Urban October 2016
Urban FIA - One Iconic City at a Time

2. Forest Inventory & Analysis
photo by Ben Kimball
The Nation’s Forest
Census!

3. Status Update – Why Urban FIA?
Farm Bill 8301 subparagraph 2:
“Implement an annualized inventory of trees in urban
settings, including the status and trends of trees and
forests, and assessments of their ecosystem services,
values, health, and risk to pests and disease.”

4. Status Update - Implementation
Urban Areas / Urban Clusters

5. 25 Cities will be operational by 2017
Census-Based Statistical Areas
Status Update - Implementation

6. Status Update – Implementation
FIA
We are FIA

7. Status Update – Urban Survey
• What?
• Who?
• Where?
• When?
• Pre-testing a survey instrument to measure
attitudes and behaviors of urban residential
owners regarding their trees and other green
spaces
• Private urban residential owners with some type of
green space (yard, garden, trees)
• 3 Pilot cities
– Austin, TX with Texas A&M Forest Service
– Madison, WI with the Wisconsin DNR
– Baltimore, MD with the Urban Field Station
• Pilot surveys began December 2015 with results
from Austin expected by April 2016
Want more information? Contact Brett Butler, NWOS coordinator, bbutler01@fs.fed.us

8. Status Update – UTPO
Progress:
• Lots of interest in Urban Wood Flows
• Have identified interested parties in 5 cities
• Baltimore field station has taken the lead
• Identifying where FIA fits in best
• Working with John to find a path forward

9. Status Update – Tools