Protecting Privately Owned Urban Woodlands: Trends in Municipal Tree Ordinances

Author: Lapping Mark B.   Kurtz William B.  

Publisher: Society of American Foresters

ISSN: 0022-1201

Source: Journal of Forestry, Vol.74, Iss.9, 1976-09, pp. : 622-624

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Abstract

Many communities are developing land-use controls which regulate urban woodlands and trees in private as well as public ownership. Analysis indicates that the ordinances are becoming increasingly sophisticated and suggests the provisions that can usefully be incorporated when new regulations are formulated.