Lunchtime Lecture – Austin’s Tree Census

From Nature in the City/ City of Austin Urban Forest Division –

Join us to learn more about a fantastic online data-driven tool called My City’s Trees, new from the Texas A&M Forest Service. You’ll learn how to manipulate the data to discover real information about Austin trees based on a comprehensive tree inventory and analysis of Austin’s urban forest.

Paul Johnson with the Texas A&M Forest Service will walk us through the application and introduce us to the first intensified and accelerated Urban Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) completed in the United States. Not only can Paul tell you how many trees are in the City of Austin, but he can tell you what percentage are city-owned.

Thanks to the Urban Forest Inventory and Analysis completed in 2015, Austin now has access to previously unknown information about our urban forest, and thanks to this new application anyone can search and sort the data (which will be updated annually). No longer do you need to be a geographic information system (GIS) guru to find out that there are over 7 million trees in the Barton Springs Zone! Even better, anyone can dive into the data and sort it by land cover, city growth, watersheds, and eco regions. If that sounds exciting to you then this talk is for you!

Brought to you by Nature in the City, and the Texas A&M Forest Service.

The lecture will be held at One Texas Center in room 325.