Could bare root planting help to reach tree canopy goals?
Trees have a place in treating many of the major problems that come with the urban environment-reducing flooding, screening harsh views, cleaning our air and water, lowering energy costs, increasing property values, promoting neighborliness and curbing violence. Currently Trees for Wilmington, a working group of Mayor Baker’s Wilmington Beautification Commission, is working to develop a plan to increase tree canopy in the city. The ability of the urban forest to function as a natural utility (as opposed to manmade systems, like large stormwater holding tanks) in treating the environmental dilemmas of the city is reinforcing a case for more trees. Urban forest movements are gaining momentum all across the country as the realities of pollution and need for solutions are recognized. Places like Los Angeles and Baltimore have committed to doubling their tree canopy over the next 30 years-both cities have been working on such efforts for at least 10 years. Based on a growing collection of d
