Resources for tree care, initiatives, and conservation efforts, as well as Tree Protection Task Force media and press coverage.
Media and Press Coverage
A few of Asheville’s Treasured Trees covered by the Citizen Times.
Here’s a chance to nominate a tree for Treasured status on Black Mountain News.
Urban Forest Master Plans
Asheville, NC Urban Forest Master Plan.
Louisville, KY, Urban Forest Master Plan.
Wilmington, NC, Urban Forest Master Plan.
Resources
AB Tech Celebrates Trees! A-B Tech has many beautiful and wonderful trees. From the Treasured Trees across campus to fruit trees feeding birds, A-B Tech celebrates trees. A-B Tech is now listed as a Tree Campus with the Arbor Day Foundation.
Save the Woods! UNC Asheville is forming a committee to decide the fate of a 45 acre urban forest.
Reforesting WNC with Greenworks.
Tree protection organization of Charlotte, NC.
Tree protection organization of Knoxville, TN.
Tree protection organization of Louisville, KY.
Urban tree canopy report by the city of Asheville.
Sustainable Forestry Initiative – Urban and community forest sustainability standard
Replanting Asheville’s canopy – Nicki Cagle
Asheville Urban Tree Canopy Report 2019
i-Tree storm water calculator to estimate longterm benefits of planting trees.
City of Asheville trees and Urban Forestry Commission.
Urban Heat Island Studies
Becerril, K., Kluchman, C., McMullen, S., Tintinger, C. (2024). Asheville Urban Development II: Mapping Urban Heat to Support Cooling Initiatives and Climate Resilience Planning in the Greater Asheville Area. NASA DEVELOP National Program, NCEI.
Developing a Heat Vulnerability Index for Buncombe County, NC. Hope Donnellan, 2023.
Tree Protection Task Force 