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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
right this was my point. the goal was 1 million trees over 10 years, we planted something like 100k, and due to all the losses due to disease/age/weather on top of it, our canopy is being lost. and many of the saplings the city plants i doubt make it to maturity, simply look at how many stumps are along major commercial corridors or downtown (to say nothing of the fact that every developer chainsaws everything within a block radius every time they initiate a project). not to mention the city wont plant a parkway tree unless a resident specifically requests one
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I actually pull out my 311 App and it's quite easy to request a tree along the parkways. When I walk my kids in their stroller I sit there and boom boom boom, request trees as I walk where I see they are missing or lost - even though it's not my property. I thought it would be fruitless - but alas as I walk now I see new trees going in one by one where I pointed them out.