10 June, 2018

Boston fails in promise to plant 100,000 trees

A decade ago, Mayor Thomas M. Menino stood with other local officials in the Geneva Cliffs Urban Wild in Dorchester and vowed that Boston would plant 100,000 new trees by 2020, expanding the city’s tree canopy by 20 percent.
A stump marks where a tree was removed on the Commonwealth Avenue mall.
With climate change a growing concern, cities across the country made similar pledges, a simple way to soak up carbon emissions and curb energy use, among many other benefits. That same year, New York City set an even loftier goal to plant 1 million trees by 2017.

New York met its goal — two years early. Boston, however, has fallen woefully short. Not only has the city abandoned its goal for this decade, but it has barely kept up with tree mortality.


Read the story by David Abel from The Boston Globe - “Boston fails in promise to plant 100,000 trees.”

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