urban forest
Americannoun
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the trees and plants within a city.
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a densely wooded area within a city.
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Ficus trees scrub away air pollution and cast vast shade, something vital when an urban forest can lower temperatures by 10 or 20 degrees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Activists tried to plant trees to protest turning an urban forest into a “Cop City” police training site in Atlanta.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2025
Mike Mitchell of the San Francisco Police Department, who stood with other police and traffic control officers surveying the scene, said that the city simply did not have enough arborists to maintain its urban forest.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Kate Falanga, a bar manager who signed the petition, called the proposed project “awful” and said the land — part of a huge urban forest — should be used for something that’s “better for everyone.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
In the Indian megacity of Mumbai there’s an urban forest four times the size of New York’s Central Park.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2022
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