The Alliance for Community Trees supports the needs of communities, nonprofits, businesses, and others engaged in urban forestry. Find case stories and tree organizations by state on their website.

American Forests vision is to have healthy forest ecosystems for every community.

Access California Air Resources Board’s (ARB) forest sector greenhouse gas inventory and other ARB forestry-related activities.

The California Council of Land Trusts acts as a unified voice for more than 150 land trusts working in local communities throughout California.  The Council maintains a listing of all land trusts working in California, which cities and counties can use to find potential partners for open space and agricultural preservation in the community.

The mission of the California Native Plant Society is to increase understanding and appreciation of California’s native plants and to conserve them and their natural habitats through education, science, advocacy, horticulture and land stewardship.

California ReLeaf works to empower grassroots efforts and build strategic partnerships that preserve, protect, and enhance California’s urban and community forests.

Read the article by Erica Geis, from the fall edition of Land & People, by visiting Trust for Public Land’s website.

The Tree Benefits Estimator, developed by Sacramento Municipal Utility District, is a web-based tool to estimate energy savings, capacity savings and the amount of carbon sequestration that results from planting mature trees in urban and suburban settings.

Access the Union of Concerned Scientists website to read about how forests play a critical role in climate change and forest solutions that can substantially decrease the severity of climate change.