Seedlings need lots of TLC when being planted in the ground with hopes of growing into strong, healthy trees. A planter will dig a hole two or three times as wide as the roots of the baby tree, making ...

Volunteers plant trees in a backyard of a south Palo Alto home on Dec. 4, 2021 as part of Canopy’s planting event. Photo by Gennady Sheyner. In the early 1980s and 1990s, Palo Alto’s street trees were ...

Charlotte City Council met Monday to discuss threats to Charlotte’s tree canopy, and heard a presentation from TreesCharlotte about what the future might hold for Charlotte’s trees. Charlotte has seen ...

The D.C. area’s council of governments wants to get at least half of the region covered in trees. After years of shrinking tree cover, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) adopted ...

Vasef is the executive director of Friends of Trees, a nonprofit organization that has planted 900,000 trees and native shrubs in western Oregon and southwest Washington since 1989. The recent report ...

Seattle’s zoning code is being revised to increase housing. The revision must also consider our tree canopy. Large trees provide shade in a warming climate, protect biodiversity, filter out harmful ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Are there trees outside your window? Chances are if you live on the southwest side, you have more sun than shade. City leaders and experts say that's a problem with equity. Our ...

One year after Philadelphia unveiled its final plan to expand the city's dwindling tree canopy, its partners are working to boost the number of oaks and maples along the sidewalk — and fast. The ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The city of Chicago has a plan to plant tens of thousands of trees over the next five years, starting this spring, both for the health and wellness of city dwellers and for equity. A ...

Arlington’s Civic Federation, also known as CIVFED or the ACCF, wants the County Board to fund a new tree canopy study. The County says it already did that, back in 2017, with the Davey Resource Group ...