City of Wauwatosa Urban Forest 🌳
đź“Ť 25,000+ Trees - With Canopy Covering 297.4 Acres
đź“Ť 25,000+ Trees - With Canopy Covering 297.4 Acres
Wauwatosa has over 25,000 city trees, typically trees that are in medians or in the grassy area between sidewalks and the street.
Trees provide shade for our houses and buildings, improve our air quality, and is an important tool for keeping stormwater out of our rivers and lakes. Other benefits include noise control, traffic control, and glare and reflection control.
Our Tosa trees contribute lots of value to our urban forest:
If you’re interested in learning more, view iTree’s software to see how we calculate some of these numbers.
Our staff meticulously cares for our 25,000+ trees, making us proud to be a Tree City USA . We think trees significantly enhance the beauty of our environment and raise our quality of life.
In a typical year, our team:
Outside of tree responsibilities, we manage the city's green spaces by cutting and fertilizing grass, plant annual flowers at Hart Park, City Hall, perennial beds throughout the city, and manage other garden areas. We also are snow plow drivers!
When there's a significant storm, we're on the front line of cleaning up damage to city trees.
Below is our Wauwatosa tree dashboard. When you click into the map, you can navigate to any Wauwatosa street and start to see city trees populate on the map.
If you start to dig into the data, you might notice some trends:
Maple, Linden, Honey Locust, and Ash trees make up roughly two thirds of our urban forest - which isn't a healthy balance for our ecosystem. We're actively planting different species to make sure our forest thrives.
We gathered photos of some of the tree species we are using to increase the diversity of our urban forest.