The latest street tree inventory was conducted in Brookline, Massachusetts during the spring of 1994 by 97 community volunteers. The inventory program was coordinated by the University of Massachusetts Department of Forestry.

Approximately 11,250 trees found along 104 miles of roads were inventoried. Inventory teams documented the species, condition, diameter at breast height (dbh), management needs, root zone cover, percentage of impervious material over the root zone, and presence of cavities, dead wood, and overhead utilities.

The Brookline Tree Planting Committee and Conservation Commission assisted in the logistical organization of survey teams and assigned specific survey locations for each team. Over 95% of the volunteers were Brookline residents and ranged from 13 to over 70 years in age.

In the years since this initial inventory the Parks and Open Space Division has refined and update this information which has taken final form in a stem by stem inventory of all off the Public Shade Trees which line Brooklinešs streets and roads.