Community Trees

MDC’s Community Forestry Program advises, coordinates, and facilitates the efforts that affect Missouri’s community-owned trees. We use surveys, inventories and models to assess the status of Missouri's' urban forests.

Missouri's 2010 Street Tree Economics (PDF, 420 KB)

Published on Dec 31, 2011 - by Nick Kuhn

Missouri’s 2010 Street Tree Inventory (PDF, 490 KB)

Published on Dec 31, 2011 - by Nick Kuhn

Community Forestry Officials: Results from a MDC survey (PDF, 387 KB)

Published on Jun 01, 2012 - by Nick Kuhn

Trees Work: A Baseline Survey of 3 Communities (PDF, 465 KB)

Published on Jan 01, 2013 - by Martha McCrary

Missourian’s and their Community Trees: Results from an MDC Survey (PDF, 456 KB)

Published on Jan 01, 2013 - by Nick Kuhn

Forest Economics in Missouri

What is the economic impact of Missouri’s forest products? To answer this, MDC undertakes periodic assessments of the economic impact of the forest products industry on the state as a whole by working with data collected by the Federal government

2022 MDC Timber Product Output Report (PDF, 819 KB)

Published on Sep 14, 2023 - by Thomas Treiman

Science Note - Forestry Economic Impact - up to 2023 data.pdf (PDF, 247 KB)

Published on Sep 30, 2024 - by Thomas Treiman

Forest Inventory and Analysis

The Missouri Department of Conservation cooperates with the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to provide the information needed to assess Missouri and America's forests. The "Nation's continuous forest census", FIA projects how forests are likely to appear 10 to 50 years from now. This enables us to evaluate whether current forest management practices are sustainable in the long run and to assess whether current policies will allow the next generation to enjoy America's forests as we do today. 

FIA reports on status and trends in:

LiDAR Applications Project

Light Range and Detection, which is more commonly referred to as LiDAR, is remote sensing technology that has become increasingly available and used for a wide range of purposes in the last 10-15 years. LiDAR sensors measure distances and are often used to map topographic relief by generating a mass of elevation points. With the advancement in computer processing, additional information collected with LiDAR sensors pertaining to forest structure (e.g., tree height and density) have also begun to be analyzed.

Wetland Decisions Support Tool (PDF, 2 MB)

Presented on Oct 05, 2021

Natural Community Health Indices

Land managers of both public and private lands need rapid and repeatable assessment and monitoring tools to gauge the health of the natural communities they are restoring such as tallgrass prairies or glades.