Funding
The New York Public Interest Research Group Fund, Inc.
(NYPIRG) received a grant in spring 2001 from the USDA Forest
Service through the Forest Service's Title VIII Urban and
Community Forestry Program. The project was titled "Urban
Canopy Enhancements through Interactive Mapping."
The project ensured that new data about neighborhood
trees and the urban canopy in New York City is delivered to
a wide audience of decision makers, greening advocates, the
media, and community residents using Internet-based mapping
tools, sophisticated data analysis, and a team of on-the-ground
community based groups. The grant provided $175,000 from May
2001 through December 2002 to support the work of several
partner organizations in this effort: NYPIRG's Community
Mapping Assistance Project (CMAP), Council on the Environment
of New York City (CENYC), Trees New York, the Environmental
Systems Research Institute (ESRI), and the State University
of New York's School of Environmental Science and Forestry
(SUNY-ESF) working with the Forest Service's Northeastern
Research Station.
The project also benefited from in-kind matches from
each of these organizations, as well as other participants
in the OASIS partnership such as the NYC Department of Parks
and Recreation.
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