Sunday, April 22, 2007
For the next 10 years, the city will plant 23,000 trees each year along city streets, to reach a goal of having a tree in "every single place where it is possible to plant a street tree," Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff said.
Yikes the urban jungle is growing!
Today, New York City has 5.2 million trees, or 24 percent canopy cover. By comparison, Chicago's canopy cover is 11 percent and the rate for Atlanta is 37 percent.
Have you calculated your percent canopy cover yet? The pigeons will love you. Or better yet (how about that droppings index!)
It can be said of New York City:
Oh give me a home where the tree planters roam and the skies are not smoggy all day.
Steve
ourfutureworld.blogspot.com
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