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urban forest

American  

noun

  1. the trees and plants within a city.

  2. a densely wooded area within a city.


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As co-founder of the Seattle Merlin Project, which tracks the local population, McCormick asked that preserving the existing urban forest be at the forefront of the legislation.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

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

Trinidad, of TreePeople, said the billion-dollar investment from the federal government speaks to a much-needed shift in “how we plan around our urban forest and how we look at that as infrastructure.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

It would destroy more than half of that urban forest.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2023

"The decision to completely destroy our urban forest against overwhelming public opposition in a way that avoided public scrutiny is indefensible."

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2023

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