Tree Canopy and Forest Management

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As the City's principal manager of the urban forest, PP&R Urban Forestry regularly tracks change in canopy cover and potential, reports on what trees make up the forest, and evaluates efforts to increase canopy.

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Tree Canopy

Portland's Tree Canopy Explorer is an interactive map for you to see where tree canopy is spread across the city.

Tree Canopy Explorer

Tree Canopy Monitoring, Portland's latest estimate of tree canopy cover finds 29.8% of the city under tree canopy in 2020, down from 30.7% in 2015.

Tree Canopy Monitoring 2000-2020 2.06 MB

Tree Canopy and Potential, PP&R's 2018 study of available planting space in the city found room for 1.3 million trees, which would provide nearly $200 million annually in services such as cleaner air and water, summer cooling, and other benefits.

Tree Canopy and Potential - 2018 15.67 MB

In 2007, PP&R released its first canopy report, where it identified the replacement value of Portland’s public tree resource as over $2.3 billion and the structural value of the entire urban forest canopy as nearly $5 billion

Urban Forest Canopy: Assessment and Public Tree Evaluation 2007 780.56 KB

Tree Planting

Growing a More Equitable Urban Forest, Portland's citywide tree planting strategy. The result of over a year of conversations with diverse communities around Portland and citywide survey of residents to identify barriers, opportunities, and recommendations for growing a forest that serves all Portlanders equitably.

Tree Planting Strategy - December 2018 5.37 MB

Tree Planting Report, an annual report detailing the City's planting efforts and long-term monitoring of trees planted or given away by PP&R Urban Forestry.

Tree Inventory and Forest Management

Citywide Street Tree Inventory Report - findings and analysis from Portland's first comprehensive inventory of over 218,000 street trees

City of Portland Street Tree Inventory - 2017 5.44 MB

Park Tree Inventory Report - results of inventory of over 25,000 trees in Portland's developed parks

Park Tree Inventory Report (2020)

The Park Tree Maintenance Plan guides the care and maintenance of park trees by setting a standard of care and establishing priorities.

Park Tree Maintenance Plan (2024) 3.02 MB

Managing Street Trees - Reports from 2009 and 2020 estimating the cost proactively maintaining Portland's 200,000+ street trees, a responsibility that currently falls on adjacent property owners.

Managing Street Trees As Green Infrastructure (2020)7.59 MB

Initial Assessment of the Costs of Managing Street Trees as a Public Asset (2009)2.3 MB

My City’s Trees - a web based tool to explore baseline canopy and land use data from Portland's Urban Forest Inventory and Analysis (UFIA) project, an ongoing partnership between the City of Portland and the US Forest Service.