What
The Urban Forest Map is a collaboration among Friends of the Urban Forest, the City of San Francisco, CalFIRE, several local green businesses, and you -- the citizen foresters and nature lovers of San Francisco -- to build an inventory of San Francisco’s urban forest one tree at a time. As trees are added, we'll calculate the ecosystem services they are providing (the gallons of stormwater filtered, pounds of air pollutants captured, amount of energy conserved, and tons of carbon dioxide removed), helping demonstrate once and for all that trees are more than just "pretty."
Why
To celebrate the present and plan for the future! The urban forest needs our help to survive and grow. Understanding what is out there – where trees are (and aren’t), what condition they’re in, what threats they face, and where there is room for improvement – is one of the first steps to planning for the future.
Who
Anyone can participate! Just create an account and get started. If you represent a government entity, nonprofit group, research unit, local business, landscape architecture or design firm or what-have-you, and you would like to add a bunch of trees to the map at one time, drop us a line and we'll make it easy for you.
How
The Urban Forest Map is an online, open-source, wiki-style tool to enable public participation. Just log-in and search for the trees near you, verify the records that have been entered, and add the trees around your home, office, school, local café, or anywhere you find yourself!
