Strategic National Urban Forest Inventory for the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B Edgar ◽  
David J Nowak ◽  
Mark A Majewsky ◽  
Tonya W Lister ◽  
James A Westfall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forest Inventory ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forest Change ◽  
Urban Settings

Abstract In response to the strategic plan required by the Agricultural Act of 2014, the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program is initiating a strategic inventory of the nation’s urban forests. The inventory is designed to provide timely and credible data on urban forests, thereby meeting an expanding need for information on trees located in communities where more than 80% of people live. The program monitors the status and trends of trees in urban settings (i.e., urban forests), enabling assessment of their composition and structure, ecosystem services and values, health, and risk from pests and disease. At full implementation with funding, resources, and partnerships in place, the program as designed would provide annual updates of urban forest conditions on approximately 68 million acres of land and for 100 of the most populous cities in the United States. The traditional forestland inventory of FIA continues and is complemented by the new urban inventory providing the means for a more complete assessment of the tree and forest resources across the United States. Study Implications Urban forests provide many benefits that improve the quality of life for people residing in urban settings. By initiating an urban inventory, the FIA program seeks to provide consistent, timely, and credible data about urban forests across the United States and thereby meet the needs of users and partners as expressed in its strategic plan. In addition to baseline information, the urban inventory will provide information on urban forest change for managers to help guide or mitigate forest and environmental changes to desirable outcomes. State, regional, and national urban forest assessments useful to setting policy will be strengthened by the standardized data collection procedures. The urban inventory is a significant step toward more seamless rural-urban monitoring and “all tree” assessments that will be necessary to address the challenges that urban expansion presents to adjacent rural and forestlands.

scholarly journals Urban forest management in small Ontario municipalities

2012 ◽  
Vol 88 (02) ◽  
pp. 118-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. John Barker ◽  
W. Andy Kenney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forestry ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Urban Forest Management

Urban forestry has emerged as an important and timely discipline in an urbanizing world. The practice of urban forestry has focused mainly on large urban centres but urban forests in small municipalities provide the same benefits to the residents within and around them. Small municipalities face many challenges similar to those in urban centres but a lack of resources may worsen the negative effects on small municipalities. Urban forestry in Ontario is undertaken by municipalities with little involvement from upper-level governments. Thus, the effectiveness of urban forestry in Ontario is inconsistent and sporadic, with many small municipalities unable to manage urban forests optimally. Ontario's legislative framework governing urban forestry is critiqued and compared to the system employed in the United States. Recommendations are provided for action toward a centralized urban forestry program in Ontario.

scholarly journals Reaching and Teaching Millennials: Designing the Future of Student Services

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
Brian Detweiler ◽  
Kimberly Mattioli ◽  
Mike Martinez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Student Services ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
The Future ◽  
Successes And Failures

AbstractToday's students have come to expect library services that are quite different from their predecessors and law librarians must evolve to meet their needs. As law libraries in the United States face the realities of declining enrolment and decreasing budgets, it is imperative that we find new and creative ways to build positive relationships with our students while also preparing them for the realities of practicing law in an environment driven by rapid technological change. Three law librarians from the United States, Brian Detweiler, Kimberly Mattioli, and Mike Martinez, Jr., discuss their successes and failures in reaching out to their student populations, creating and evaluating various student-centred instructional programmes, and in establishing a strategic plan to meet the needs of millennial law students.

Steam Generator Asset Management Program

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Padmanabha J. Prabhu ◽  
Damian A. Testa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Steam Generator ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Steam Generators ◽  
Pressurized Water

The Steam Generator Asset Management Program (SGAMP) is a long term program designed to maximize the performance and reliability of the steam generators. The SGAMP focuses on plant specific conditions and hence is applicable to the original or the replacement steam generators. It is recommended that the utility and the vendor form a joint steam generator management team (SGMT) to develop, monitor and implement a long-term plan to address steam generator operation, maintenance and life extension goals. The SGMT will consist of representatives from operations, chemistry, maintenance and engineering functions and will be responsible for making decisions related to the steam generators. The charter of the SGMT is to develop a steam generator strategic plan that will cost-effectively manage steam generator options. The strategic plan is consistent with the Steam Generator Program Guidelines (NEI 97-06 in the United States). The strategic plan is a living document and is revised periodically to incorporate inspection results, new technology developments, lessons learned and industry experience. Cost-benefit analyses of strategies may be performed to prolong steam generator operability through steam generator performance modeling (tube degradation, fouling, etc.), diagnostic tools, regulatory strategy, condition monitoring and operational assessment strategy, and maintenance strategy. The SGMT will provide input regarding potential maintenance of the steam generators with schedule and cost impacts for each outage. It will also recommend engineering evaluations to be performed in support of program goals and will develop short- and long-term recommendations. These recommendations will address action plans, performance measures and results. Secondary side inspection and cleaning strategy should be developed (techniques and frequency) to maximize performance cost-effectively. This paper is based on Westinghouse experience gained by working with several pressurized water reactor (PWR) plant operators in the United States (US).

The Math and Science of Decarceration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Austin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
National Level ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Lengths Of Stay ◽  
Probation And Parole

Despite a growing consensus that “mass incarceration” in the United States has reached unacceptable levels, there has been little movement in its decline. National imprisonment rates seem to have stabilized and will remain so absent a major decarceration effort. To implement such a decarceration effort requires a strategic plan that will lower prison admissions and lengths of stay for all prisoners—especially those convicted of violent crimes. It will also need to reduce the more pervasive nature of other forms of correctional control (jails, probation, and parole). Such a strategy, which relies upon current and past policies, is entirely feasible. But to take hold on a national level, the plan must negate economic and public safety concerns that favor maintaining high imprisonment and correctional control rates.

scholarly journals Creation of the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan

AI Magazine ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne E. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
United States ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Research ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Insight Into

In October 2016, the United States announced the release of the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, which lays out a strategic plan for Federally-funded research and development in AI.  As a coleader of the Task Force that developed this plan, I was asked to discuss its creation in an invited presentation at AAAI 2017.  This article is based on that presentation, which outlines not only the Plan itself, but also provides insight into its goals and objectives, and background on how the Plan was created.

The Sterling-Dollar-Franc Triangle: Monetary Diplomacy 1929–1937

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Oye
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Monetary Cooperation ◽  
Conflict And Cooperation ◽  
Monetary Systems ◽  
Emergence Of Cooperation

The late interwar years encompass a full spectrum of international monetary conflict and cooperation. Why did Great Britain, France, and the United States cooperate in some periods and not in others? First, the transience of monetary cooperation and conflict is explained in part by inherent characteristics of gold exchange and floating monetary systems. Second, environmental changes—swings between prosperity and depression, between peace and the threat of war, and between monetary orthodoxy and inflationist heresy—altered the strategic setting confronting the central monetary powers. Third, the actions of governments both followed from and shaped the circumstances that they confronted. Through strategies of composition across issues and decomposition across time and actors, nations deliberately fostered the emergence of cooperation by altering the context of monetary diplomacy.

Raising the profile of Canada's 9th forest region: Urban forests

2006 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
Michael Rosen ◽  
Jim McCready ◽  
Tony Bull
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
The United States ◽  
Usda Forest Service ◽  
Forest Region ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Great Pressure ◽  
Forest Plans ◽  
First Time

A recent CIF Ottawa Valley section meeting in Carleton Place, Ontario was cause for reflection on the important role of urban forests. In spite of their well-known benefits, Canadian urban forests are under great pressure. However, recent developments in municipal planning and the creation of the Canadian Urban Forest Network show some progress — developments encouraged for the first time by the most recent National Forest Strategy. This contrasts to a historic denial by forestry organizations to include urban forests as part of "Canada's Forests" in spite of their economic and environmental significance. It also contrasts with urban forest programs initiated by the USDA Forest Service in the United States. For smaller communities like Carleton Place, urban forests are very important. They are being recognized by the community through its Official Plan, in operational guidelines and through an R.P.F.-led volunteer Urban Forest Advisory Committee. Key words: urban forests, strategic urban forest plans, Canadian Urban Forest Network, Urban Forest Advisory Committee

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