This report details how land cover and urbanization vary within the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin by community (incorporated and census designated places), county subdivision, and county. Specifically this report provides critical urban and community forestry information for each state including human population characteristics and trends, changes in urban and community lands, tree canopy and impervious surface cover characteristics, distribution of land-cover classes, a relative comparison of urban and community forests among local government types, determination of priority areas for tree planting, and a summary of urban tree benefits. Report information can improve the understanding, management, and planning of urban and community forests. This data is reported for each state on the CD provided in the back of this book and may be accessed by state at: http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/data/urban.

The newsletter contains technical articles, profiles of urban forestry activities in Wisconsin, resources, coming events, Wisconsin Urban Forestry Council actions and news items to help educate, train, exchange information and improve awareness of urban foresty in Wisconsin.

The newsletter contains technical articles, profiles of urban forestry activities in Wisconsin, resources, coming events, Wisconsin Urban Forestry Council actions and news items to help educate, train, exchange information and improve awareness of urban foresty in Wisconsin.