Montebello's Tree Inventory

Methodology:  How we got here

Montebello's tree inventory includes 5 components:

• • The 2018 Woodland Tree Inventory included 564 large trees 15 inches or more in diameter at breast height (DBH--approximately 4.5 feet above the ground), plus an additional 131 trees under 15 inches in diameter, primarily in areas where erosion control construction was about to take place.  For the full background, see the 71-page PDF report by Natural Resources Design.

  • The 2018 Developed Landscape Tree Inventory included a total of 320 trees, 43 of which were 15 inches DBH or larger.  Trees as small as 2 inches DBH were counted.  Except where noted below, the inventory of trees in the developed landscape is documented separately.

  • In early 2020, the Grounds Committee rechecked the woodland trees inventoried two years earlier and found that 32 (5.7%) of the 564 big trees (more than 15 inches DBH) had been lost in the interim, mostly due to natural causes.  In addition, 32 of the 131 inventoried smaller trees were gone, mostly removed in the erosion control work of 2018-2019 and in the removal of invasive species.  Read the six-page report, 2020 Update to the 2018 Montebello Woodland Tree Inventory, and view the interactive map.

  • In late 2020, Natural Resources Design extended the original woodland tree inventory to include all woodland trees 4 inches or more DBH that were not counted in the 2018 report.  The 92-page 2020 PDF report by NRD presents figures that can be added to those in the 2018 report above.

  • Between 2021 and 2025, the Grounds Committee 

    • added an inventory of the saplings that had been planted as a result of Arbor Day fundraising in 2018 and 2022, and other saplings funded by the Association through 2025.

    • reviewed and supplemented the earlier inventory results.