Project Canopy
 Ottawa Citizen - One summer day Carly Ziter hopped on her bicycle and set off to calculate how many trees it takes to cool down a city.
Cities form “heat islands” — zones where the temperature is higher than in the surrounding countryside because of all that asphalt and concrete. Trees help reduce the heat island effect. That much is old news.
But how many trees are enough? Read more...
How does a community manage to increase its street and park tree species diversity by 445% without spending ANY public funds to purchase trees?!! Look no further than the Village of Cambridge, WI (pop. 1,500) for an answer. Read more...
 Mother Jones - When the Ida B. Wells housing project opened on Chicago’s South Side in 1941, its up-to-date kitchens and grassy lawns drew more than 1,500 black families looking for somewhere decent to settle. But over the decades, the project fell into disrepair: The grass turned to mud, and in an effort to reduce dust and maintenance costs, the city paved over many of the development’s green spaces, killing its trees. By the 1980s, the project was rife with gang warfare and drugs.
The loss of greenery may have had something to do with its decline. Read more...
 Scientific American - We have heard for years that planting trees can help save the world from global warming. That mantra was mostly a statement of faith, however. Now the data finally exist to show that if the right species of trees are planted in the right soil types across the planet, the emerging forests could capture 205 gigatons of carbon dioxide in the next 40 to 100 years. That's two thirds of all the CO2 humans have generated since the industrial revolution. "Forest restoration is by far our most powerful planetary solution today," says Tom Crowther, a professor of global ecosystem ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and an author of a study published in Science that generated the eye-opening number. Read more...
How Tech Can Help Curb Emissions by Planting 500 Billion New Trees
NYC battling invasive plants, bugs to save green spaces
The Detested Bradford Pear Tree Is Coming to a Forest Near You
How trees can save us
New Hampshire Forest Health Update
Maine Forest Service Browntail Moth Survey - Click here!
Bats of Maine Walk & Talk - July 26 & 27, First Settlers Lodge in Weston More info.
Invasive Forest Pests Presentation - July 27, Merryspring Nature Center, Camden http://www.knox-lincoln.org/invasive-forest-pests
Invasive Forest Pests Presentation - July 29, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Lisbon Falls info@androscogginswcd.org
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