Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities (HTHC) is a collaborative initiative to promote the long-term health of urban trees by providing free tools and resources such as a field companion tool, web-based project management dashboard, and training resources.
BECOME A CIVIC SCIENTIST
Since HTHC's inception in 2014, civic scientists have been powering scientific analyses and management responses for urban trees in metropolitan areas across the United States, and now the globe. Watch these short videos to learn a simple, scientifically-based methodology you can use to check on the health of your community's trees.
Get StartedView ResourcesWatch this video to learn more about the Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities Initiative.
COOLING OUR CITIES
2 - 4° F
Temperature reduction trees
provide in a city
PLANTING A HEALTHY FUTURE
10%
A ten percentage point increase in canopy city-wide was associated with an estimated reduction of more than 376 deaths city-wide.
CLEANING OUR AIR
7 - 24%
A single tree can remove 7-24%
of air pollution
Tree Health Matters
Healthier trees mean healthier communities.
It's as simple as that.
Boy Scout troop 169 helps the city of Oconomowoc WI monitor EAB infested ash trees.
Case Study | Oconomowoc, WI
A Boy Scout in the town of Oconomowoc WI noticed that ash trees were dying in his town. As part of his Eagle Scout service project he started an Healthy Trees Healthy Cities project and used the Health Check module to assess all 316 city owned ash trees. The city forester used this information to prioritize trees to send his professional crews to for further evaluation. The Eagle Scout project earned the 2017 National Eagle Scout Association Council service project of the year award. The US Forest Service remeasured 20 percent of the trees in the project to assess the reliability of data collected by non-experts and found substantial agreement between the health check ratings conducted by the Boy Scouts and those conducted by tree health experts.
