The first steps in the start up of a UFORE project are:
- Define the study area for the project you wish to conduct. The study area can
range from a single tree up to any size tree population. Typical UFORE study
populations:
- park and/or street trees
- all trees inside the municipal boundary
- all trees inside the county boundary
- Decide whether data will be collected from the complete population or only from
random samples of that population. For small populations, complete data collection
is possible. More commonly, UFORE depends on sampling larger areas of the urban
forest such as neighborhoods, sections of a city, an entire city, or urbanized
areas around a city.
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Complete Population Projects
Setting up UFORE projects for small populations of trees is relatively
straightforward. A UFORE inventory project does not need to establish ground plots.
UFORE projects where all trees in the study area will be examined are usually
associated with discrete properties such as apartment complexes or cemeteries, or
street and park inventories.
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