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The Tucson Million Trees initiative, led by Mayor Regina Romero, intends to plant one million trees by 2030 to increase the city’s tree canopy and help mitigate the effects of climate change.

Climate change forcing cities to rethink their tree mix

Dec 20, 2022 ◇ Alex Brown/Stateline

As communities prepare for a massive influx of federal funding to support urban forestry, their leaders say the tree canopy that grows to maturity 50 years from now will need to be painted with a different palette than the one that exists today. Read more»

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The Tucson Million Trees initiative, led by Mayor Regina Romero, intends to plant one million trees by 2030 to increase the city’s tree canopy and help mitigate the effects of climate change.

Trees: The critical infrastructure low-income neighborhoods lack

Jul 6, 2021 ◇ Alex Brown/Stateline

Policymakers and advocates are aiming to correct decades of inequities in urban tree canopy in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color with efforts to create an equitable tree canopy and increase urban forestry efforts. Read more»


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