WSU Urban Forest Health Lab

2025 Annual Report (PDF – 36.2MB)

• More than 80% of people in the United States live in cities and rely on healthy, functioning urban forests.
• Urban trees provide critical services for keeping communities healthy, such as mitigating the impacts of heat waves, but these benefits are not equally distributed and more research is needed to improve the functioning of urban forests equitably.
• In the Pacific Northwest, there is enormous need—and opportunity—to equitably increase the resilience of communities by advancing knowledge and stewardship for growing healthy and vibrant urban forests.