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Gainesville, Florida's Urban Tree Cover in 2006

Francisco Escobedo, Jennifer A. Seitz, Wayne Zipperer, and Basil Iannone


Release Date: 5/27/2025

Agriculture

Abstract

UF/IFAS Fact sheet.

About this Publication

This document is FOR 215 (originally published as Gainesville's Urban Forest Canopy Cover), one of a series of the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date March 2009. Revised June 2012, May 2018, and November 2024.  Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

About the Authors

Francisco Escobedo, former assistant professor; Jennifer A. Seitz, former Extension associate, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; Wayne Zipperer, former research scientist, USDA Forest Service; and Basil Iannone, assistant professor, Geospatial Analytics of Sustainable Human and Ecological Development, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.

Authors

Francisco J. Escobedo
Francisco J. Escobedo

former associate professor, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences

Jennifer Seitz
Jennifer Seitz

former Project Learning Tree state coordinator, UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Gainesville, FL 

Wayne Zipperer
Wayne Zipperer
external
USDA

research forester, integrating human and natural systems, USDA Forest Service; courtesy faculty, urban forestry, School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences, Gainesville, FL

Basil Iannone III
Basil Iannone III
Specialist
University of Florida

associate professor and state Extension specialist, residential landscape ecology, UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Gainesville, FL

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