This document discusses different types of tree management plans and provides examples. It summarizes the key reasons to develop a management plan, including increased public safety, efficiency, justifying budgets, and planning. The main types of plans discussed are master plans, operational reviews, specialty/combination plans, emergency response plans, planting plans, and urban tree canopy assessments. Examples of elements that may be included in plans are inventories, maintenance recommendations, species composition, budgets, and i-Tree analyses to quantify tree benefits.

1. ▪ Why?
▪ What types are there?
▪ Why & What’s in your plan
▪ Examples
Josh Behounek
Consulting Urban Forester
Davey Resource Group
Tree Management Plans
TODAY

2. ISA Pledge
I pledge as an ISA Certified Arborist
to:
▪ Adhere to the Code of Ethics,
▪ Comply with all accepted
professional standards,
▪ Deliver safe & competent services
with objective & independent
professional judgment,
▪ Disclose potential conflict of
interest, and
▪ Follow appropriate health & safety
procedures to protect clients,
employers, employees, and the
public.

3. What’s Happening?
Our urban forests
are threatened by:
✓ exotic and
invasive insects and
diseases
✓Budgets
✓Construction
✓Weather
patterns/events
✓Policy
✓Etc…..
How can we best manage sustainably?

4. Where to Start?
?
Public Tree Inventories
Management Plans
Urban Tree Canopy Analysis
Tree
Ordinances
Hyperspectral Imagery
i-Tree Benefits Model

5. Why?
▪ Increased Public
Safety
▪ Increased Efficiency
▪ Justify Budgets
▪ Documentation
▪ Planning
▪ Short-term
▪ Long-term

6. PLAN TYPES
Master Plans
Operational Reviews
Specialty/Combination
Emergency Response
Planting Plans
Urban Tree Canopy
i-Tree (Streets, Eco)
Public Tree Management
Work Plan
MANAGEMENT

7. Work Plan Public Trees i-Tree UTC
Citizen
Mayor Director
Project
Day-to-Day

10. Work Plan Public Trees i-Tree UTC
Short– and Long-Term Management
(5 – 10 years)

11. Work Plan Public Trees i-Tree UTC
Ash < 7”

12. Typical Tree Inventory Data Fields
▪ GIS/GPS
▪ Location (Area)
▪ Identification
▪ Diameter (DBH)
▪ Condition
▪ Maintenance Recommendation
▪ Conflicts

13. Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
Methodology
Tree Population
5-Year Mgmt Program
Summary

14. Work Plan Public Trees i-Tree UTC

15. Species Composition

16. Maintenance

17. Budget

18. Budget

19. Work Plan Public Trees i-Tree UTC
▪ Carbon sequestration
▪ Oxygen
▪ Erosion Control
▪ Aesthetics
▪ Energy Conservation
▪ Storm Water Interception
▪ Pollution Control
▪ Quality of Life
Strategic Position

20. i-Tree Includes…

21. Structure
Function
Value
Management
Needs

22. What’s cool is that with a basic street tree
inventory you can put a dollar value on
tree benefits using i-Tree.

23. Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
i-Tree Overview
Tree Resource
Costs
Benefits
Conclusion

24. Resource Structure

25. Resource Structure

26. Resource Cost

27. Resource Function

28. Resource Function

29. i-Tree Helps You:
▪ Justify and leverage
funds
▪ Quantify Street tree
benefit values
▪ Empower Advocacy
▪ Plan, prioritize, and
budget
▪ Benchmark progress

30. Linking Trees to Community Values
EAB Structural
Impacts
▪ 17.4% Canopy Loss
▪ $221 Million structural
damage (citywide)
EAB Functional
Impacts
$243,785 less
pollutant removal
$138,000 less energy
savings (cooling costs)
$2.6 million reduction
in storm water
benefits (1996 study)

31. Work Plan Public Trees i-Tree UTC

32. Work Plan Public Trees i-Tree UTC

33. Work Plan Public Trees i-Tree UTC

34. Tree Canopy

35. Work Plan Public Trees i-Tree UTC

36. Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
Methodology
Results
Benefit Calculations
Conclusion

38. Priority Planting

39. Making Trees Political

40. UTC Helps You:
▪ Set Goals
▪ Benchmark
▪ Monitor change
▪ GIS Analysis
▪ Prioritization

41. Urban Forest Master Plan

42. Adaptive Management
▪ Urban Forestry:
Planning and
Managing Urban
Greenspaces
▪ Miller, R. W. 1988. New
Jersey: Prentice Hall.
▪ ufmptoolkit.net
▪ Inland Urban Forest
Council
What Do
We Have?
What Do
We Want?
How Do We
Get There?
How Are
We Doing?

43. What is an Urban Forest Master Plan?
▪ An Urban Forest Master Plan is a road
map, providing detailed information,
recommendations and resources
needed to effectively and proactively
manage and grow a city's tree canopy.
▪ More importantly it provides a shared
vision for the future of the urban forest
to inspire and engage stakeholders in
the care and protection of trees.

44. HOW DO WE GET THERE?
Vision, Goals + Objectives

45. Vision
Over the next 20 years, Pittsburgh’s
urban forest will be vital and well-
managed asset that is locally valued and
nationally recognized for its positive
social, environmental, economic and
public health impacts on the community
and the greater region.

46. A Management Plan
that addresses short-term planning
Short-term planning is usually based on the condition of
individual trees and their immediate needs.
✓ Addresses hazards
✓ Implements BMPs
✓ Trees and construction

47. that addresses long-term planning
Long-term planning is usually based on the current state of
existing urban forest and its desired future state.
✓ Increase species diversity
✓ Adjust population age distribution
✓ Create canopy
✓ Enhance environmental benefits to the community
✓ Eradicate and replace invasive species
✓ Streamline operations
✓ Project budgeting
✓ Track successes and problems
A Management Plan

48. 1.Clear set of objectives
2.Goals
3.What information is needed?
4.Who is writing?
5.Be community specific
Management Plan Development

49. Work Plan Public Tree i-Tree UTC Master Plans
Standardized Tree
Care
Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Cost Low Low/Moderate Low/Moderate Higher Highest
Baseline Data No
Yes
Individual Trees
Attributes
Yes
Tree Population
Statistics
Yes
Tree Canopy
Statistics
Yes
Depends on Baseline
Data
Projected Budget No Yes/More Specific Yes/General Probably Not Yes
GPS/GIS Tree
Locations
No Yes No Yes Yes or Maybe
Realistic Goal Setting No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Prioritized Tree Care Yes Yes No No Yes or Maybe
What Do You Need
To Develop Plan?
1. Resources
1. Resources
2. Inventory
1. Resources
2. i-Tree
3. Inventory
1. Resources
2. GIS
1. Resources
2. Inventory (&/or)
3. GIS (&/or)
4. i-Tree

50. Mgmt Plan Considerations
Cost Priority In-House
Resources
Credentials
Volunteers $ Low Low to Moderate Low
In-House Staff $$
Low to
Moderate
High Varies
Outsource
(Contractor)
$$$
Moderate to
High
Low High

51. Thank You!
Josh Behounek
573-673-7530
Josh.behounek@davey.com
@treesrtheanswr