Tree Equity scores for Iowa City's urban block groups.

Find the Tree Equity Score for urban Census block groups in the United States. Tree Equity Score measures how well the benefits of trees are reaching communities living on low-incomes, communities of color and others disproportionately impacted by extreme heat and other environmental hazards.

Explore the state of forests worldwide by analyzing tree cover change on GFW's interactive global forest map using satellite data.

View instructions: https://www.iowadnr.gov/Portals/idnr/uploads/forestry/urban/arcGISdirections.pdf

A report on the findings from the USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program for Iowa, including features, people, attributes, trends, carbon, sustainability, health, and economics.

Forest managers face many challenges. In the last few years, forest fires have become more intense and more frequent; North American forests have experienced widespread infestations by pests such as the pine bark beetle; and tropical deforestation continues. Our changing climate adds complexity to government and commercial decisions about how to manage, protect, and sustain our forest resources. Landsat satellites provide key data for forest monitoring and management across the globe. Landsat gives us consistent views of the health, composition, and extent of forest ecosystems as they change over time. Curtis Woodcock, Professor, Boston University and specialist in remote sensing, has said, “I would argue that the Landsat data archive may be the most valuable environmental data record we have.” Designed, built, and launched by NASA, Landsat satellites have recorded global forest conditions every year since the 1970’s, and they have observed all U.S. forests once a season throughout those years. The U.S. Geological Survey provides this valuable data to the public at no cost. Landsat observations will continue into the future with Landsat 8.