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Raleigh has been called "A Park with a City in it". Raleigh has an amazing Parks and Recreation department and a intricate network of greenways. It also has a huge forested State Park that is actually within the city limits: the 5579 acre William B Umstead State Park. N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation: - Welcome to William B. Umstead State Park
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Correct...Portland, Oregon has the largest in-city forest in the country. Forest Park is huge (5100 acres) and is within a couple of miles of downtown Portland. I'm not trying to end this thread, but this is the end of the argument.
uhh....WRONG!!!!
Raleigh has a bigger one. Umstead State Park is larger and in the city limits of Raleigh. There might be bigger in-city forested parks. So, I am not going to claim that title for Raleigh and close the argument.
I think if I would have asked the question 20 years ago the various southern cities would have won but in the last twenty years there has been an incredible loss of trees in the sun belt. I think they do not like to save any trees in the new developments. In the past cities like Atlanta were likely to build around the trees now they just clear cut the site.
I think if I would have asked the question 20 years ago the various southern cities would have won but in the last twenty years there has been an incredible loss of trees in the sun belt. I think they do not like to save any trees in the new developments. In the past cities like Atlanta were likely to build around the trees now they just clear cut the site.
Even with their massive amounts of growth, it's astonishing how many trees there are in the cities of the Southeast.
It's true that there's trees lost to development but, at the same time, there are new trees added and growing rapidly in the long growing season. I know that Raleigh even has a tree ordinance that requires the planting of trees in open parking lots, buffers of trees and protection of existing trees in certain development scenarios. While neither the developers nor the conservationists are completely happy with the ordinance, I don't think I could find anyone would say that Raleigh was lacking more than its fair share of trees. http://www.raleighnc.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_306_200_0_43/http%3B/pt03/DIG_Web_Content/category/Business/Development_Services/Guide/Site_Permits/Cat-1C-2007318-101723-Tree_Conservation.html (broken link)
In Hurricane Fran in 1996, the storm felled so many trees that it literally took huge teams of crews from around the country a year to remove them all. The crews ran day and night for a solid year. And, while the city lost lots of trees during that storm, it's still basically a forested city.
for its size and cosmopolitan vibe... Atlanta definately takes the cake..... There are lots of smaller cities with tons of trees.... But as far as real cities go..... its definately ATL
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