Download or read book Urban and Community Forests of the South Central West Region written by United States Department of Agriculture and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report details how land cover and urbanization vary within the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas by community (incorporated and census designated places), county subdivision, and county. Specifi cally 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 benefi ts. Report information can improve the understanding, management, and planning of urban and community forests.