Filling the Gap – Urban Road Rules Partnership Model –FIA and I-Tree Under Vibrant Cities Umbrella Goals: –Long-term Strategic Inventory and Monitoring of the Nation's Urban Forests »Not another pilot »Built one Census Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) at a time »Annualized to FIA rural forest inventory cycles within the CBSA »Strategic monitoring of all urban forests within each CBSA »Intensified monitoring of urban forests in the target city within each CSBA »Provide annual information on the status and trends in target city forests »Provide for the broader-scale monitoring of all forests along the urban to rural gradient »Place city forests into context within the broader urban to rural continuum »Forward Vibrant City goals Design –Population Census--Core Based Statistical Areas (multi –county areas which build to national) –Census-defined urban areas and urban clusters boundaries within »Target-city boundary within –FIA Hexagonal Sampling Frame Sampling Intensity –FIA base intensity (1 plot/~6000 acres) in urban boundary –Intensify as necessary to achieve 200 total plots in the target city
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