Birch Kemp (center), executive director of Arboretum Detroit, gives a tour of Circle Forest in Detroit's Poletown East neighborhood.

The Metro: Nonprofit reclaiming nature in Poletown with ‘Circle Forest’ restoration project

October 17, 2024

Detroit’s Poletown neighborhood is now home to a restored forest.   Detroit Future City and Arboretum Detroit worked with community members,...

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Volunteer Pamela McGhee (left) and her daughter, Arboretum Detroit employee Robyn Redding, stand next to a six-year-old sequoia tree in "Treetroit 2," a small tree park created by the arboretum in Detroit's Poletown East neighborhood.

Local nonprofit aims to plant Detroit’s first-ever forest of giant sequoia trees

April 30, 2024

A nonprofit in Detroit’s Poletown east neighborhood is partnering with an organization in northern Michigan to plant Detroit’s first ever...

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