Urban forests are vital parts of communities across the U.S. (Credit: Melinda Nagy/ Adobe Stock)
Urban forests are comprised of all the trees growing in a city, including those in parks, on private properties, and along sidewalks.
There are more of these trees than one might imagine: The U.S. Department of Agriculture notes that more than 141 million acres of the forests in the U.S. are located in urban areas, which consist not only of parks and street trees but also landscaped boulevards, greenways, river corridors, wetlands, nature preserves, and working trees at former industrial sites.
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