The Citizen Forester Program is a collaborative community project with the goal of developing an urban tree inventory using citizen science while increasing community support and awareness for our urban forests. The data we collect is publicly available to be used for education and to advance the understanding and management of our urban forests! Our data cannot be used for commercial purposes.
With the help of dedicated volunteers, the Citizen Forester Program has been collecting urban tree inventory data on Oʻahu since 2016. As part of our program, volunteers collect data on trees in the city right of way. Data is not collected for trees on private land. The data collected includes:
- Species Names
- Weed Risk Assessment Score
- GPS Coordinates
- Specific tree measurements (height, DSH, canopy density, dieback, crown spread, etc),
- Tree condition assessments
- Utility interference
Our inventory is stored on the Tree PlotterTM platform, which calculates the estimated eco-benefits for the recorded trees. The data collected is used to estimate eco-benefits of individual trees and forest level eco-benefits such as:
- Runoff Prevention (Gallons)
-Energy Saved (kWh)
- Pollutants removed (lb)
- Carbon Avoided (lb)
- Carbon Stored (lb)
- Carbon Sequestered (lb)
- Property value
Our online inventory is publicly available to be viewed at
www.pg-cloud.com/HawaiiPlease use this form if you are interested in receiving data sets from our program. Data is extracted from our online inventory and can be sent as an excel file (.xsl) or CSV.