Annual Report

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2024

In 2023, the City of Davis adopted its Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP) which replaced the previous Community Forestry Management Plan (2002). Through a grant from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL-FIRE), the UFMP was completed in addition to the planting (lead by Tree Davis) of 1,000 trees throughout the community. 

The development of the UFMP in Davis was a community effort and the product is a unique, online-based 40-year plan that is intended to be the overall guide for the management of the City's urban forest program. The UFMP looks at key areas of the urban forest and includes recommendations for managing, budgeting, service level metrics and process improvements.

The completion of UFMP was the first step of many in the reevaluations and improvements conducted in the last two years for City’s Urban Forestry (UF) division. In the first year after its adoption by City Council, UF continued the development and updating of tree-related specifications, standards, policy, procedures as well as laid the structural groundwork for a long overdue complete update to the City’s Tree Ordinance. 

In May of 2024 by direction of the City Council, the Tree Commission merged with the Natural Resources Commission to form the Climate and Environmental Justice Commission. Several of the responsibilities of the Tree Commission have been incorporated into the newly formed commission. One significant task that was removed from the purview of the Commission, tree removal requests, has required new policy and procedures to be created to streamline the process. Some of these policies have been implemented, others are still being prepared for final approval from Council.

State of the Urban Forest (includes Implementation Plan Update Attachment)

Urban Forestry Services Snapshot

Urban Forest (2024)

Urban Forest Canopy Analysis

This information will be updated when the City completes the next canopy analysis. These are planned to take place every 10 or so years. 

Urban Forest (2020)

Annual benefits to air quality and stormwater runoff reduction from tree canopy.

City Tree Resource (2018)

This information will be updated when the City completes the next canopy analysis. These are planned to take place every 10 or so years. 

Annual benefits to air quality and stormwater management.

Annual State of the Urban Forest Format

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While the topics within each report will reflect the year, and any unique occurrences or noticeable trends/changes, annually each report will include the following: 

• Progress on Goals and Objectives
• Current Focus and Next Steps
• Challenges

Previous Year Reports

• Will be located here

History of the Urban Forest

Explore a timeline on the formation and growth of the urban forest on the History of the Urban Forest page.

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