Vanguard Cities Initiative
In 2020, a consortium of “vanguard” cities began collaborating around shared goals and knowledge about rapid implementation of high impact urban forestry efforts in historically under resourced communities and areas with high vulnerability to climate change impacts. Lead cities in this collaboration - Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver/Front Range, Portland, and Albuquerque -formalized their collaboration as the Urban Forestry Vanguard Cities Initiative and have since developed and refined large-scale urban forestry expansion strategies ready to utilize both federal and other leveraged resources.
