Arbor Day

"Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests," Grist Magazine

"One Neighborhood, 90 Trees and an 82-Year-Old Crusader," NYT

Tree removal at Ontario Place’s West Island in October, 2024. Nick Lachance Toronto Star

Adding trees to Safe Routes to Schools routes ("Tacoma gets $1.3 million to plant more trees in effort to protect kids, cool the city," Tacoma News Tribune), this is an issue for urban bike paths too, the need for shade.

Out of 122 applications for grants, Tacoma’s SafeTREE Routes for Schools was ranked number one, according to DNR spokesperson Will Rubin. The proposal aims to increase tree coverage along walking corridors at six Tacoma schools located in the city’s under-served neighborhoods. Tacoma Public Schools will add an urban forestry school curriculum during the 3-year-long plan.

Summer’s hot season is coming sooner and lasting longer. Shade trees can make a student’s trip home a little cooler. That’s especially true for high school and middle school students who first walk to an elementary school to meet up and walk home with a younger sibling, said Cailin Henley, the safe routes to school coordinator for the city’s public works department. 

https://forestcarbonworks.org/

"USDA Forest Service: Showing the value of trees | US Forest Service"

Weaponizing shade ("Universal under investigation after it trimmed trees that shaded SAG-AFTRA protesters," CNN).

Knowing the trees

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https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2025-09-04/lacma-plants-more-palm-trees-wilshire-boulevard-la

Planting street trees is not enough ("Make it One Seattle, full of trees, in Comprehensive Plan," Seattle Times)

"Fort Lauderdale’s ‘plant more trees’ plan would cost up to $103 million. Vote coming Tuesday.," 

Fort Lauderdale needs to plant up to 276,000 more trees by 2040 if it wants a 33% tree canopy, meaning one-third of the city would be shaded by tree cover. That ambitious goal is part of a new urban forestry master plan expected to come before the Fort Lauderdale commission Tuesday night.

To reach that number, trees would need to be planted on both public and private property over the next 15 years. Getting the job done would cost between $27.6 million and $103.4 million, says RES Florida Consulting, the firm hired by Fort Lauderdale to prepare the proposed urban forestry plan.

"Dozens of trees vandalized in St. Paul," Minneapolis Star-Tribune