Cities Are Good at Planting Trees. They’re Not So Good at Keeping Them | The Walrus

One city managed to buck the trend, and its urban canopy is flourishing

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Atlanta, GA, the city of trees, cut down 4-6 mature (1’ thick) trees on a side walk with near construction in midtown… just so they could put scaffolding over the side walk for the construction. WTF didn’t they just put debris scaffolding higher or better debris fencing/netting? 🤦‍♂️
City trees are much more expensive than rural trees to maintain. Orders of magnitude more so.
- Well rural trees are typically extremely low cost to maintain. I’m not sure I understand the relevance of this comment.
- Then they should plant rural trees