Center for Community Geography Project Assistant Joe Scala worked with the GIS coordinator for the New Mexico State Forestry Division to assist in the creation of a model to prioritize, or rank, urban areas throughout the state to receive benefits related to urban forestry. Their intention was to identify the CDPs (Census Designated Places) that would benefit the most from increased tree canopy cover. Primarily working in ArcMap, they used variables that such as percent tree canopy cover, the presence of a tree board, and various social factors related to demographics (race/ethnicity, median household income, age, etc..), these variables were clipped to each extent and then used the raster calculator to determine which area had the higher concentrations of the total variables, at which point the CDPs were ranked. This is also a model that is very easy to incorporate additional data that could affect the ranking.