In Montreal the city plants 100,000 new trees each year. . they started in the l900s when Olmsted designed the City's park system and wrote in his journal: "Now i have given the city its lungs".
Portland ‘Treebates’ now help city stormwater programs branch out. New intiative encourages property owners to plant thousands of new trees
Katherine Baril is faculty chair and Director at the Washington State University Community Learning Center in Port Townsend, Jefferson County on the North Olympic Peninsula in Washington.
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