Anne Buckelew Cumming

Assessing urban forest effects and values: Morgantown's Urban Forest

An analysis of the community forest in Morgantown, WV, was undertaken in 2004 to characterize the structural and functional attributes of this forest resource. The assessment revealed that this city has about 658,000 trees with canopies that cover 35.5 percent of the area. The most common tree species are sugar maple, black cherry, and hawthorn. The urban forest currently stores about 93,000 tons of carbon valued at

Street Tree Diversity in Eastern North America and Its Potential for Tree Loss to Exotic Borers

1.9 million. In addition, these trees remove about 2,900 tons of carbon per year (

Urban forest health monitoring: large-scale assessments in the United States

60,000 per year), with trees and shrubs removing about 104 tons of air pollution per year (

Urban forests of Tennessee, 2009

711,000 per year). Trees in Morgantown are estimated to reduce annual residential energy costs by

prOpHyLACTIC pESTICIDE AppLICATIONS AND LOW SpECIES DIVErSITy: DO THEy CrEATE pEST OUTBrEAKS IN THE UrBAN FOrEST?

380,000 per year. The structural, or compensatory, value is estimated at

Urban Forest Health Monitoring in the United States

488 million. Information on the structure and functions of the urban forest can be used to improve and augment support for urban forest management programs and to integrate urban forests within plans to improve environmental quality in the Morgantown, WV area.