Source: Portland Bureau of Transportation
Yashar Vasef (he/him/his)
Executive Director, Friends of Trees
yasharv@friendsoftrees.org
www.friendsoftrees.org
Partners in Community Forestry Conference November 16, 2022
PLANTING FOR THE
FUTURE WITH A SISTER
CLIMATE CITY ANALYSIS
Lightning Round – Climate Change
Director of Urban Forestry
Consulting Services
Urban Forestry Planner
Project Manager
ISA Certified Arborist Municipal Specialist
41 urban forestry projects since 2014
8 years with PlanIT Geo
Chris Peiffer
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Considerations &
Inputs
Getting started
Partners, planting for sustainability
Existing lists, programs, standards
Regional research and studies
Intended application and user(s)
Nursery availability, maintenance
Applications
Align with city plans
Update code & standards
Collaborate & educate
Increase accessibility & use
Monitor, analyze, & update
Example Analysis & Tool
City of Fresno, CA Street Tree Lists
Cercis canadensis ‘Oklahoma’ Redbud Eastern Oklahoma
Cinnamomum camphora Camphor
Fraxinus Americana ‘Autumn Purple’ American Ash
Fraxinus Americana ‘Autumn Applause’ American Ash
Koelreuteria paniculata Golden Rain Tree
Lagerstroemia indica ‘Indian’ var. ‘Indian’ var. Crape Myrtle
Magnolia grandiflora ‘Russet’ Southern Magnolia
Pistacia chinensis Chinese Pistache
Platanus acerifolia ‘Columbia’ London Plane Tree
Quercus agrifolia Coast Live Oak
Quercus virginiana Southern Live Oak
Quercus wislizenii Interior Live Oak
Sapium sebiferum Chinese Tallow
Zelkova serrata ‘Village Green’ Zelkova
Ginkgo biloba ‘Autumn Gold’ Autumn Gold Ginkgo
Ginkgo biloba ‘Fairmont’ Fairmont Ginkgo
Ginkgo biloba ‘Saratoga’ Ginkgo Saratoga
Prunus cerasifera ‘Atropurpea’ Purple Leaf Plum
Arbutus unedo Strawberry tree
Questions Select
1) How tall would you like your tree to be? 15-35’ (Med)
2) Will it be a wide or narrow canopy? 20-35’ (Med)
3) How much shade would you like? Dense
4) Will there be low or moderate watering? Moderate
5) How much planting space is available? 6'-10' Width
6) Would you like a tree native to the area? Yes
7) Deciduous or evergreen tree? n/a
8) Amount of tree litter? n/a
9) Will you plant a Climate Resilient tree? Yes
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California Buckeye Aesculus california
Strawberry Tree Arbutus 'Marina'
Bottle Tree Brachychiton populneus
Fan Tex Ash Fraxinus velutina 'Rio Grande'
Australian Willow Geijera parviflora
Heath Melaleuca Melaleuca ericifolia
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Partners in Community Forestry Conference November 16, 2022
THANK YOU!
Lightning Round – Climate Change
Chris Peiffer,
Director of Urban Forestry Consulting Services,
PlanIT Geo
chrispeiffer@planitgeo.com │ (717) 579-9890
Sooty Bark Disease
Climate Change ‘Time Bomb’
Joey Hulbert
Puyallup Research and Extension Center
Washington State University
WSU Puyallup Research and
Extension Center
Todd Murray
Marianne Elliot
Joey Hulbert Gary Chastagner
native-land.ca
Potential Hosts
Common Name Species
Field Maple Acer campestre
Vine Maple Acer circinatum
Fernleaf Fullmoon
Maple Acer japonicum
Bigleaf Maple Acer macrophyllum
Japanese Maple Acer palmatum
Norway Maple Acer platanoides
Sycamore Maple Acer pseudoplatanus
Red Maple Acer rubrum
Water Birch Betula occidentalis
European Beech Fagus sylvatica
Orn. Cherry Plum Prunus cerasifera
Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum
Pacific Dogwood Cornus nuttallii
Oregon Ash Fraxinus latifolia
American Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua
Summary
• ‘Rise of the secondaries’
• Urban forests are experiments
• It is going to get worse
• Don’t overlook interactions
between environment and plant
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Environment
hulbe@wsu.edu
What’s brewing in your urban forest?
Which Urban Tree Canopy Types are
the “Coolest”
Clara Pregitzer, PhD, Natural Areas Conservancy
Crystal Crown, Natural Areas Conservancy
In Collaboration with the Forests in Cities Network
Forests in Cities Network
Goals
1. 1. Strengthen a community of practice
2. 2. Increase knowledge about natural area
forests
3. 3. Advocate for increased resources and
2022 Summer Study
Air temperature Sensors Surface temperature map
Study Goal: Quantify temperature differences
between healthy & degraded forested natural
areas and tree canopy in the streetscape.
Air Temperature Sensor Deployment
June 21st - September 30 2022
12 City Teams participated
122 sensors up
Summary & What’s Next?
• Natural area forests can be an average of 5
degrees cooler than tree canopy in the street
scape - Lots of variation!
• Healthy forests are usually cooler but not
always
• During peak hot hours during a heat wave
these differences are magnified
• Stay tuned for full analysis this winter!
Learn more about Forests in Cities
Come find us at our booth
Naturalareasnyc.org
Clara.Pregitzer@naturalareasnyc.org
Notes de l'éditeur
02.12.2022
02.12.2022
02.12.2022
02.12.2022
Hello Everyone. I’m honored to be here My name is Clara Pregitzer and I am the Deputy Director of Conservation Science at the Natural Areas Conservancy based in New York City. Today I’ll be sharing some preliminary results from a project looking at temperature differences under different types of urban tree canopy in 12 cities across the US. I want to make sure to acknowledge Crystal Crown on our team contributed a great deal to this work as well as all members of the Forests in Cities Network. This was a truly collaborative project and I’m excited to share this with you today.
Heat is the #1 weather related cause of illness and death. Last summer Seattle experienced the hottest temperure on record – 108F. Our cities are becoming warmer and this has many negative outcomes. Trees can cool cities down. Studies starting in the 1980s have looked at the cooling benfits of trees in cities. With shaded areas typically ~7 degrees cooler than non shaded areas – and areas with grass rather than pavement cooler, and air temperature in parks have been found to be about 1 degree cooler than the surrounding neighborhoods.
Trees grow in different places and in different spatial arrangements in cities. This leads to different management needs, and different uses and magnitude of benefits. We know that forested natural areas or forest patches have higher density, soil and pervious surface underneath, and rely on natural regeneration. These are the “woods” in the city. We know that on a per-canopy basis they can store and sequester more carbon than other types of tree canopy. our organization focuses on forested natural areas.
Within a broad canopy type = Natural areas , there can be differences in the structure and composition of the forest. The reasons for these differences can vary but could include climate change, urban impacts, land use history. And these differences can have consequences for how people experience the forest, to which plants and animals can thrive and the magnitude of ecological benefits. Forests need care and resources to maximize their benefits. We have observed differences in temperature in different forest types, and how management and care of healthy forests could lead to cooler cities.
In 2019 we started the Forests in Cities Network to address the need for increased funding, a stronger sense of community of practice, and to generate new knowledge and elevate the good work of practitioners across the US. We currently have 17 cities that are part of the network- they form teams within their city and apply to be part of the network. We’ve worked together to generate case studies, a resource library.
Working with our Forests in Cities Network we designed a study in 2022 to quantify differences in 3 types of urban tree canopy. Healthy natural areas, degraded natural areas, and tree canopy in the street scape. The study has two components: Deploy air sensors that are then attached to trees. Each city team got a minimum oc 9 sensors that were paired in groups of 3 (healthy, degraded, and street trees).
Then using existing surface temperature anomaly maps to get a broader spatial distribution city teams drew polygons around different land cover types.
12 of our city teams participated – we got all the sensors up around the first day of summer June 21s and just took them down about 7 weeks ago. So they are up for the full summer. They log temperature every 5 minutes and they are blue tooth enabled – so our city teams had to go aound using an app a few times during the summer to download the data. Why we use both air temperature vs surface temperature
This gives s sense of the scale of the study. Overall we had 122 sensors up in 12 cities. and nearly 2000 polygon sites digitized that account for ~75k acres of land area. Those aren’t all forests- so with the surface temperature anaomply we are also comparing to the built environment. We are just now getting to analyzing some of this data
Our results from surface temperature analysis in NYC show that on average upland natural area forests at 5 degrees cooler compared to tree canopy in the right of way. These are polygons across NYC and you can see natural area land cover types are the coolest – forested wetlands being overall the coolest- You can also see a TON of variation. All these dots ar polygons across NYC – with natural areas being sometimes >10degrees cooler – but also sometimes the exact same temperature. Of course this could have a lot to do with spatial context, elevation, proximity to water bodies, adjacencies to buildings and other features.
When we look at healthy vs degraded forests for the city of Seattle in 6 sites for day and night time temperatures for the full summer we can see in general healthy forests are a little cooler than degreaded forests – but not by much and it’s not always the case. For Seattle heathly forests wer typically ~1 degree cooler during the day than degraded forests.
Looking just at a heat index day- this is the same 6 sites but over a 24 hour period during one of the hottest days in the summer. The patterns are much starker- but also vary based on site. You can see in the Dwamish valley the healthy forest during the heat of the day was nearly 7 degrees cooler than the unhelathy forested and street tree- but in Kudoba gardens the healthy/unhealthy are about the same but both are about 5 or 6 degrees cooler than the street tree. Then at night the temperatures come closer together.
This is Weston Brinkley and Michael Yadrick who work here in Seattle and have been incredible partners on this project and are leaders in the field of urban forestry/natural areas. One of the aspects of this project that I anticipated but not to the magnitude was how powerful it was to work together on this study and activate this project in 12 cities. Over the summer many cities got stories written about cooling and the importance of natural areas.
In summary- we know that Natural Area Forests can be some of the coolest types of forest in cities- and can play a big role in cooling. If we know that street trees are ~7 degrees cooler than no shade and natural areas ares ~ 5 degrees cooler than street trees that temperature differential makes a big difference.
We are seeing trends that our healthy forests are cooler than degraded forests. This reinforces the importance of healthy forests and need for investment and care of natural areas.
Stay tuned as we finalize this analysis
Thank you very much for your time. This is a QR code for our Forests in Citeis Resource library- there are over 100 resources submitted by our FiC network. If you would like to learn more about the network, this study, or just talk about natural areas - We have a booth in the exibit hall- or come find me during the break.