The Santa Fe Public Spaces Tree Inventory Project, currently in its third year, gathers pertinent information about the types and conditions of our trees. The project has evolved from hand-written data collection to include digital location capture through the use of a mobile-phone GPS app.
By viewing natural-resource data on a map, we can observe both spatial distributions of these resources and temporal changes that may be occurring. Seeing all this allows us to consider various factors at play in the maintenance of the trees in what is an increasingly challenging environment for them. ...continued ...