Urban FIA

Goal -- Annually monitor the Nation’s urban forests with special emphasis in the largest (Iconic) cities of America!

Why• Urban areas home to >80% of population

• Urban forests on front line of service to people

• Urban forests not covered by strategic monitoring program

• Urban areas currently cover ~68 million acres (size of CO)

• Urban areas projected to cover ~165 million acres by 2060 (size of TX)

Urban (1990): 2.5% of Lower 48

Urban (2000): 3.1%

Urban (2010): 3.6%

Urban (2020): 4.4%

Urban (2030): 5.2%

Urban (2040): 6.3%

Urban (2050): 7.4%

Urban (2060): 8.7% of Lower 48

How – Extend FIA Sampling Frame

FIA Plots in Maryland

How – Extend FIA Sampling Frame

= Census-defined urban boundary (UAUC)

Urbanized areas (UA) >=500 people/mi2, population >=50,000

Urban clusters (UC)>=500 people/mi2, population 2,500 to 49,999

= Census-defined urban boundary (UAUC)

Urbanized areas (UA) >=500 people/mi2, population >=50,000

Urban clusters (UC)>=500 people/mi2, population 2,500 to 49,999

= Census-defined urban boundary (UAUC)

Urbanized areas (UA) >=500 people/mi2, population >=50,000

Urban clusters (UC)>=500 people/mi2, population 2,500 to 49,999

How – Extend FIA Sampling Frame

= Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA)

defines Metro Area around City of Baltimore

How – Extend FIA Sampling Frame

Urban forest is within U.S. Census-defined urban boundary (UAUC)

Constrained by the chosen city’s Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA).

Urban FIA plots in Baltimore Metro Area

How – Extend FIA Sampling Frame

= Intensified sample within hub city of Baltimore

How – Extend FIA Sampling Frame

Metro areas of largest (Iconic) hub cities first;

then the rest of the urban (blue) areas

Iconic hub city = population ~200k +

Urban FIA Status2014 Austin, TX Baltimore, MD

2015 Des Moines, IA Houston, TX Madison, WI Milwaukee, WI Providence, RI St Louis, MO

2016? Cleveland, OH? Denver, CO? Sacramento, CA?

Trenton, NJ?