A recently completed study of San Jose’s urban forest revealed that San Jose is second only to Los Angeles in impervious cover. After mapping San Jose’s trees from the air using lasers, researchers discovered that 58 percent of the city is covered with buildings, asphalt or concrete. And 15.4 percent is covered with trees.   Despite the significant difference in ...
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Plan-It Geo is officially releasing a new tree inventory app under “PG Online”, a web/mobile solutions service, titled the Tree Tracker Inventory App, and doing a promotion where the tool will be free the last 2 weeks of April for communities to map / inventory / track the trees planted during Earth Day. A no-cost webinar next Tuesday, April 9th ...
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To celebrate California Arbor Week, which begins later this week on March 7th, we’ll be bringing you a series of blog posts on the favorite trees of California ReLeaf board and staff members. Today, we hear from Gail Church, Executive Director of Tree Musketeers and a California ReLeaf board member.   Marcie the Marvelous Tree, the first planted by the ...
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Check out this great infographic from the TKF Foundation. We think it makes it pretty obvious why we need more trees.