AZUTM Resources

Arizona Tree Guides

Urban tree field guides tailored for volunteers and citizen scientists in Arizona. The guides are split into three of i-Tree Streets climate zones but feel free to mix and match the guides for your community.
i-Tree Streets' economic and environmental tree value analysis are based on reference cities within STRATUM Climate Zones developed by USDA-FS. Not until you upload your data to AZUTM to run the analysis, do you have to decide on a climate zone.

	AZUTM Field Guide - Southwest Desert  04 /28/2015 Tree identification guide for select horticultural tree species found in Arizona and listed in i-Tree Streets' Southwest Desert climate zone.
	AZUTM Field Guide - Interior West  04/28/2015 Tree identification guide for select horticultural tree species found in Arizona and listed in i-Tree Streets' Interior West climate zone.
	AZUTM Field Guide - North  04/28/2015 Tree identification guide for select horticultural tree species found in Arizona and listed in i-Tree Streets' North climate zone.
	AZUTM Field Guide - Insects and Diseases   05/21/2015 Guide to common insect and diseases that affect Arizona's horticultural trees.
	AZUTM Master Tree Index - 06/01/2015  Master index of tree species found in AZUTM Guides listing their scientific names, common names, species codes, and page numbers.

Tree Inventory Guides and Templates

How-to manuals for tree inventories and template files for communities to get a leg up on their own urban forest inventories. Feel free to modify the template files to your liking. See the "AZUTM - Tree Inventor Instruction Guide" for detailed instructions.

	AZUTM Tree Inventory Instruction Guide  5/15/2015  Inventory and technical manual on how to collect tree measurements, observations, and how to submit inventories to AZUTM for analysis.
	Understanding Your AZUTM Reports Guide  9/28/2015 Guide to AZUTM's custom i-Tree Streets reports with tree structure and benefits analysis results for your submitted tree inventories.
	AZUTM Tree Data Collection Form Template  12/15/2014 Paper-based data collection template used in the field.
	AZUTM Tree Inventory Spreadsheet Template  02/04/2015 MS Excel spreadsheet template used to digitally summarize tree inventories and upload to AZUTM's tree structure and benefits analysis tool.
	AZUTM DBH Calculator 09/29/2015  MS Excel spreadsheet that helps calculate the combined Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) of trees with multiple trunks.

Arizona Urban Tree Canopy Cover Analysis

i-Tree Canopy analysis reports (PDF) for Arizona's largest Cities and Towns. The 2015 analysis reports provide % tree canopy cover and tree benefit estimates for over 97 communities and were used to estimate the average urban tree canopy cover for Arizona's Counties. See reports below or AZUTM Interactive Maps. The canopy cover estimates should not be taken as an absolutes but as a comparative estimate between Arizona’s major towns and cities.  2016 Arizona Urban Tree Canopy Cover by County Summary Table  2016 Arizona Urban Tree Canopy Cover by City Summary Table The i-Tree Canopy analysis were based on municipal incorporated areas unless otherwise stated. Urban = 2010 Census Urban Areas Intersection = intersection between Census Urban Areas and incorportated areas.

Urban and Community Forestry Documents

•  AZSF - Urban Forests Needs Assessment 2012  

Online Resources

Following are links to helpful urban tree inventory related resources:

• Tree Identification & Species Codes
  • USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Lookup USDA species codes and more!
• Tree Identification
  • Encyclopedia of Life
  • Gymnosperm Database
  • Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University
  • SEINet Southwest Environmental Information Network
  • SelecTree
  • Tropicos
  • University of Arizona Campus Arboretum
  • Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech
• Insect and Diseases
  • BugGuide.net
  • BugWood.org
• Valuing Tree Benefits
  • i-Tree Streets
  • National Tree Benefit Calculator
• Miscellaneous
  • Forestry Images 
  • 2010 USDA FS Urban Forest Analysis  

Mobile Tree Inventory Apps

For volunteer-driven inventories, we continue to search for an affordable smartphone app and web-based data storage service that allows for customized tree inventory and GPS location capture under intermittent network conditions. Here are some partial solutions:

• GIS Cloud - commercial online service for creating and managing custom mobile forms and collaborative maps; also collects GPS location, photos, audio, etc.; works offline
• i-Tree Mobile Data Collection - free, mobile data collection web application that ties in with i-Tree Streets and Eco; requires constant internet access
• Open Data Kit (ODK) - free, open-source tool set for mobile data collection solutions; requires moderate software configuration skills and your own ODK web server
• Tree Plotter (Plan-It Geo) - fully featured commercial online service; requires constant internet access
• OpenTreeMap.org - commercial crowd-sourcing online service; requires constant internet access
• DoForms.com - commercial online service for creating and managing custom mobile forms that can work offline

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