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Does the city you live in have enough trees? Would you pay more in taxes for a program that would pay property owners to plant trees and for the government to plant thousands of trees on city streets and parks, etc?
Where I live in Minnesota the land where the city developed was mostly treeless farm land and then the houses were built on open prairie land. The town is mostly treeless except for a few trees planted by property owners.
Would you pay a couple hundred dollars a year in taxes if the city could double the amount of trees in your community in the next ten years?
In my part of Philly there are more than enough trees-it borders the Wissahickon Park/Gorge and is surrounded by greenery. Other parts of the city could use more.
There is an ongoing effort throughout the region though to plant trees:
Plant One Million | Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Plant One Million is the largest multi-state tree campaign in the nation, with a goal to restore the tree canopy cover—the area of land shaded by trees—in the Greater Philadelphia Region to 30 percent. PHS is pleased to partner with the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation’s TreePhilly program, the New Jersey Tree Foundation, The Delaware Center for Horticulture, and the DCNR TreeVitalize program to plant trees to help achieve our collective vision of a greener and healthier region.
Suburban Dallas Fort Worth? For the most part, there are enough trees, in my opinion, and some cities, Denton I know for sure, have plans to increase them m. I almost wonder if the area, prairie, is even suppose to have this many trees.
Eh, probably. The suburban style development doesn't allow for a considerable amount of woods anywhere and the areas near interstates, wherever, don't seem to have much, but traditional streets do.
The entire Twin Cities area and East Central Minnesota is very green; Minneapolis and St. Paul both have heavily-canopied streets and exhibit some of the finest examples of urban forestry in the US. We've got more than an abundance of trees around here.
Except east of Chicago. A woeful lack of trees out there.
Lots of water, however.
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