Urban forestry advocate David Nowak discusses planning efforts to advance an urban and community forest plan in Kansas City.

Nowak is a project leader for the Forestry Service at the Northeast Forest Research Station, where he has developed modeling software to quantify the benefits of urban trees – in terms of energy conservation and the impact on ground-level ozone.

Co-sponsored by the Mid-America Regional Council, with the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Kansas Forest Service, and the USDA Forest Service.