Resources
…Wildfire Protection Plan, Fire Prevention & Suppression PDF City of Atlanta Interactive Maps Assessing Urban Tree Canopy in the City of Atlanta. Canopy Studies & Inventories, Community Planning, Urban &…
Canopy Studies & Tree Inventories
Depletion of Georgia’s Tree Canopy According to a 2006 study, the Atlanta region lost an average of 50 acres of tree canopy per day between 1991 and 2005. For each…
Georgia Gets Growing with Tree-planting Grants
…These grants will help to protect and grow tree canopy where it is needed most in GA communities. These grant recipients are acting decisively to increase tree canopy for Georgians…
Tree City USA, Tree Campus Higher Education® & Tree Line USA
…urban tree canopy and their residents. Check to see if your town one of them. Steps to Apply View Tree City USA Standards to see if your community qualifies Check…
Trees Across Georgia (TAG) Grant Program
…Program. The program is designed to encourage projects that plant trees and increase the benefits of tree canopy, create and support long-term and sustained urban and community forestry programs, and…
Community Forestry Assistance
…able to offer programs that provide financial assistance to encourage projects that plant trees and increase the benefits of tree canopy, create and support long-term and sustained urban and community…
Care For Your Community’s Trees
Benefits of a thriving urban canopy: Increasing property value. The presence of larger street trees can add from 3% – 15% to home values. Increasing spending in business districts. Shoppers…
Center for Watershed Protection
Learn how to conduct Urban Tree Canopy assessments and goal setting.
GFC Leaf Watch: November 5, 2020 (final leaf watch post)
…not lose canopy. As such, we are holding hope that “fall” is not lost! While the higher mountain counties have experienced one or more frosts now, we are still hoping…
Newnan Tornado Recovery – One Year Later
…that tore through the city. More than $75 million in losses were recorded from the F-4 storm and 567 acres of tree canopy were destroyed. Since that devastating evening in…