On Earth Day 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced MillionTreesNYC, a partnership of the nonprofit New York Restoration Project and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks).
Tree-planting campaigns have become popular in cities around the world. By shading and cooling neighborhoods, purifying air and water, providing wildlife habitat, trees can make urban life better. In New York, some of the million trees did better than others. Scientists studying the project found that in the city, you can’t think about the future forest until you reckon with the past.
Read the story in the Summer 2023 issue of Northern Woodlands.
Catherine Schmitt 