The distribution of trees and access to nature is rarely equitable across urban neighborhoods. This injustice is present in many cities, and its origins are predominantly rooted in enduring procedural and recognitional injustices. The purpose of this research was to systematically investigate Urban Forest Management Plans (UFMPs) prepared by municipalities across the United States (107 total) for their mention and explanation of environmental justice themes relevant to urban forestry. UFMPs describe municipal urban tree-planting and stewardship goals as well as pathways for both implementation and monitoring. Using a mixed-method approach that combines qualitative content analysis and quantitative measurement, we interrogated UFMPs for reference to three specific environmental justice pillars: distribution, procedure, and recognition. Mentions and explanations of these concepts were identified and counted for all UFMPs. Summary counts were then investigated for association with a UFMP’s publication year, its municipal population, and its racial composition. The frequency of reference to environmental justice themes was greater in UFMPs published more recently and whose authoring municipalities have a larger population. A positive association exists between the proportion of Black residents in a city with an UFMP and the frequency of identified distributional justice explanations. While a positive association with procedural justice mentions was found with the proportion of white residents in UFMP authoring cities, environmental justice, overall, is not a central theme across most UFMPs published to date. More generally, we discovered that where UFMPs referenced environmental justice concepts, it was often brief and lacking in substance; recognitional justice themes were absent in almost all documents. Improving environmental justice goals and implementation strategies in UFMPs that validate the perspectives and experiences of residents can strengthen accountability between urban foresters and the communities they serve.

城市社区中树木的分布和接触大自然的机会很少是公平的。这种不公正现象在许多城市都存在，其根源主要源于持久的程序和承认上的不公正。本研究的目的是系统地调查美国各城市（共 107 个）制定的城市森林管理计划 (UFMP)，以提及和解释与城市林业相关的环境正义主题。 UFMP 描述了城市植树和管理目标以及实施和监测的途径。我们采用定性内容分析和定量测量相结合的混合方法，对 UFMP 进行了询问，以参考三个具体的环境正义支柱：分配、程序和认可。所有 UFMP 均对这些概念的提及和解释进行了识别和计数。然后调查汇总计数与 UFMP 的出版年份、城市人口和种族构成的关系。最近出版的 UFMP 中提及环境正义主题的频率更高，而且其编写城市人口较多。拥有 UFMP 的城市中黑人居民的比例与确定的分配正义解释的频率之间存在正相关关系。虽然在 UFMP 编写城市中，白人居民的比例与程序正义的提及呈正相关，但总体而言，环境正义并不是迄今为止发布的大多数 UFMP 的中心主题。 更一般地说，我们发现，当 UFMP 引用环境正义概念时，它往往很简短且缺乏实质内容；几乎所有文件中都没有承认正义的主题。改善 UFMP 中的环境正义目标和实施策略，验证居民的观点和经验，可以加强城市林务人员与其所服务的社区之间的责任。