The future urban forest: a survey of tree planting programs in the Northeastern United States

In the winter of 2017, we sent a survey via e-mail to municipalities and non-profit organizations in cities across the Northeastern United States. The structured survey asked respondents to report on how many and which species of trees were planted in their city for each year from 2012-2017. We supplemented data from these survey responses with additional datasets to characterize the taxonomy, nativity, and height of tree species.