TREEKIT

In the short-term, TreeKIT is focused on developing tools for collaboratively managing urban forests " one of many types of œgreen infrastructure found in cities. Working in teams, TreeKIT volunteers use simple site-surveying skills to find the accurate location of curbside trees. Along the way, they build a detailed inventory of useful information about the urban environment. TreeKIT draws on these inventories to create interactive tools that help volunteer tree stewards collaborate with each other and with tree care professionals in government agencies and local organizations... TreeKIT builds tools to help city dwellers measure, map, and collaboratively manage urban ecosystems. The project is focused on high density urban areas where the links between human and non-human health are most clearly evident. Mapping street trees introduces people to the neighborly "charasmatic megaflora" (AKA trees) living on their city block and quietly contributing many ecosystem services and raising..