Policy Strategies to Value and Retain Mature Urban Trees on Private Lands CEU Quiz

Policy Strategies to Value and Retain Mature Urban Trees on Private Lands CEU Quiz

JD Brown, Bioliphic Cities

Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEanWs9X-yE

Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund) hosts many webinars throughout the year. This presentation is from their October 2025 TREE Fund Webinar Series.

With funding from the Bob Skiera Memorial Fund, Biophilic Cities has explored the disconnect between the high value of mature urban trees and the failure to retain them. To address this disconnect, Biophilic Cities has identified policy mechanisms that establish a regulatory baseline to preserve mature urban trees on private lands but that also provide incentives, and financial and technical support to help private parties achieve those baselines. To communicate the results of the research, Biophilic Cities has prepared a policy advisory that introduces strategies to value and retain mature urban trees, which are policy approaches underway in one form or another in cities across the US and internationally. 

The key findings of the policy advisory communicate that (1) mature trees are currently undervalued and unaccounted for in decision-making processes related to private land use, (2) there are multiple opportunities to engage a range of stakeholders regarding the ability to retain mature trees cost-effectively and in a manner that meets other city priorities such as affordable housing, (3) a regulatory baseline for protecting mature urban trees is a necessary starting point, but (4) cities can provide incentives and financial and technical support to aid private landowners in achieving baseline protection standards. 

1 CEU (A, M, U, Bm)

CEUs for this quiz may be earned only once during the life of your certification.

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