PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Richard J. Hauer
AU  - Gary R. Johnson
AU  - Michael A. Kilgore
TI  - Local Outcomes of Federal and State Urban & Community Forestry Programs
AID  - 10.48044/jauf.2011.020
DP  - 2011 Jul 01
TA  - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF)
PG  - 152--159
VI  - 37
IP  - 4
4099  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/37/4/152.short
4100  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/37/4/152.full
AB  - Increasing local urban and community forestry (U&CF) programs and activities in the United States is a goal of state and federal U&CF programs. This study found local U&CF programs within the 50 United States increased in activity between 1997 and 2002 at a 2.1% annual rate of increase. Several attributes of state U&CF forestry programs from a multiple regression model and correlation analysis partially explain the increase in local U&CF program activity. The number of technical assists in a state were a strong predictor for increased local activity. Less certainty was found with state money used to fund the state U&CF program or the use of cost-share assistance (Federal Cooperative Forestry Assistance Challenge Cost-share Grants) and this increase. Study findings provide evidence that state and federal U&CF programs within the United States are furthering the building of capacity and development of local U&CF programs.