Looking for America's Greenest City (Urban Forest) (Georgia, Tennessee, Chattanooga)
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Seattle iand Houston are green. BUT...I think DC and Atlanta are in a world of their own. Very very green and you think you're not even in a major metropolitan area if you visited these two areas.
I have no pictures of DC but I do have them of Atlanta.
Seattle wins. Hands down. She is the most beautiful city to fly into. Seattle has trees everywhere and lots of parks and lots of water. There's a park with over 400 acres that is only a few minutes drive from downtown; then there's Lincoln park in West Seattle.
I'm going to shut up, so not too many people will move there. Damn, I miss that city.
As I fly I like to look out the window as the plane drops into the Airport. The window seat gives me a better perspective of the look and feel of the city I am traveling to. One thing I really notice is the number of trees the metro area of a city has. Some Cities were built in a naturally forested setting but most of the trees were cut down when the area developed and few were replaced. While others are beautiful with tons of large trees all over town.
Does your town have enough trees and which City (metro area) has the most trees?
Pgbh has a lot of wooded hills within the city, true.
Atlanta is pretty amazing. It is, indeed, built in the middle of a big forest. There is no "countryside",...you drive out of town into woodland or scrub country interlaced with suburbia, then its just forest and scrubland...The suburbs are amazingly wooded (thinking of the Toco Hills area north of Decatuer).
As I fly I like to look out the window as the plane drops into the Airport. The window seat gives me a better perspective of the look and feel of the city I am traveling to. One thing I really notice is the number of trees the metro area of a city has. Some Cities were built in a naturally forested setting but most of the trees were cut down when the area developed and few were replaced. While others are beautiful with tons of large trees all over town.
Does your town have enough trees and which City (metro area) has the most trees?
Kansas City Missouri has had an streets & boulevards department responsible for planting trees all over the city, especially along the city and residential neighborhood streets, for well over 75 years.
Here is a link that talks about the value of our city's planted trees:
http://www.heartlandtreealliance.org/egap.php?id=230 (broken link)
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