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Summary
Summary
During the latter part of 2004, Helen Buitenkamp of Springer Publishing emailed me that the first edition of Handbook of Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast is the best volume in its field and inquired whether we'd be interested in compiling a second edition; I replied that we certainly would, and started working on it imme- ately. We have revised 14 out of 26 chapters in the first edition, and added two new authors. Many things in urban forestry have changed a great deal, while others have not changed at all. Henry Gerhold has written an entirely new Chapter 1 based on a book that he and his graduate student Stacy Franks have written entitled "Our Heritage of Community Trees. "Dave Nowak has included the most up-to-date inf- mation on the environmental effects of trees in Chapter 2, and Peter Fengler and Tom Smiley have done the same with the diagnosis and treatment of hazard trees in Chapter 17. All told, we have revised or replaced 16 chapters of the original 26; we've kept 10 chapters as originally written, and substituted two entirely new chapters, 1 and 14, respectively. With the emergence of urban and community forestry as the fastest growing part of our profession in the last several years, the need for a book such as this inevitably developed. The Society of American Foresters' urban forestry working group counts over 40 universities now offering courses in this subject, and the number is growing.
Author Notes
John Kuser has taught Urban Forestry, Dendrology, Forest Ecology and Silvics, Forest Genetics, and Introduction to the Forestry Profession at Cook College, Rutgers University, for 30 years. He has advised approximately 10 undergraduates per year, and 2-3 M.S. and Ph.D. candidates per year. His fields of interest include regional genetics of Atlantic White-cedar, Eastern White Pine, Coast Redwood and Dawn Redwood, on all of which he has published several papers each.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
This is the best urban forestry text published in recent years. Edited by Kuser (Rutgers), the volume boasts a list of contributors that reads like a Who's Who in urban forestry in the Northeast. The second edition of Kuser's popular Handbook of Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast, this volume includes 16 new or revised chapters of 26 total. It is a wonderful compilation of information pertinent to this rapidly growing field, which offers tremendous job opportunities as the population continues to urbanize. As an example of the book's prime nuggets, the opening chapter on the origins of urban forestry is a wonderful, fresh look at what urban forestry is and why it is so crucial to the US. It is written by one of the grand scholars in the field, Henry Gerhold. This reviewer's only concern with the book, besides its price, is that the quality of many photographs is not very good; many are too dark. Nevertheless, this book is destined to be a classic--one that this reviewer plans to use in his own course on the subject next year. Summing Up: Essential. All levels. D. F. Karnosky Michigan Technological University
Table of Contents
| Contributors |
| Foreword |
| Acknowledgements |
| 1 Origins of urban forestryH.D. Gerhold |
| 2 Understanding the benefits and costs of urban forest ecosystemsD.J. Nowak and J.F. Dwyer |
| 3 Arboriculture law in the northeastV.D. Merullo |
| 4 Tree ordinancesM.V. D'Errico |
| 5 Using comprehensive planning to conserve the natural environmentW.F. Elmendorf |
| 6 Urban and community forestry: planning and designS. Strom |
| 7 Tree inventory and systematic managementR.S. Wolowicz and M. Gera |
| 8 Urban and community forestry financing and budgetingR.L. Tate |
| 9 Community involvement in urban forestry programsJ. Nichnadowicz |
| 10 Soils: the key to successful establishment of urban vegetationG.A. Hawver and N.L. Bassuk |
| 11 Selecting trees for community landscapesH.D. Gerhold and W. Porter |
| 12 Guide to selecting and specifying nursery stockJ. Sellmer and L. Kuhns |
| 13 Planting and maintenanceJ.W. Consolloy |
| 14 PruningD.L. Johnson |
| 15 Trees, utilities, and municipalitiesR.F. Lee and R.S. Wolowicz |
| 16 Tree roots vs. sidewalks and sewersW.R. Comery |
| 17 Hazard tree inspection, evaluation, and managementE.T. Smiley et al. |
| 18 Integrated pest managementD. Smith-Fiola |
| 19 Tree appraisal: the goal is equityJ.B. Ingram |
| 20 Leaf compostingP.F. Strom and M.S. Finstein |
| 21 Urban tree romovalsD.F. Blair |
| 22 Recycling urban tree removalsE.A. Lempicki and E. Cesa |
| 23 Tree city USAJ. Rosenow and M. Yager |
| 24 A case study of Paramus, New Jersey: a "tree city USA" communityW.R. Comery |
| 25 Attracting and managing for wildlifeK.E. Clark |
| 26 Managing urban ecosystems: A look to the future of urban forestryL.R. Neville |
| Index |
