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The Metro: WDET is ‘rooting’ itself in local environmental reporting with tree canopy project

Sam Corey, Amanda LeClaire, The Metro April 22, 2025

WDET is embarking on a new project exploring the multifaceted relationship between trees and community health in Michigan. Amanda Le...

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Detroit accepting applications for free tree planting

Bre'Anna Tinsley April 16, 2025

Detroit’s General Service Department is looking to increase the tree canopy across the city to improve citizens’ quality of life. The...

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Circle Forest is a native habitat restoration project located on 12 city lots in Detroit's Poletown East neighborhood.
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Detroit nonprofit Arboretum Detroit brings new life to vacant lots with community forest project

Amanda LeClaire April 14, 2025

A once-forgotten cluster of vacant lots on Detroit’s west side is now home to Circle Forest, a community-led reforestation project...

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they won’t know for sure how much they were affected until the trees wake from their dormant period.
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Massive flooding in Southwest Detroit may have affected trees

Bre'Anna Tinsley April 9, 2025

The nonprofit Greening of Detroit says the severe flooding caused by a recent water main break in Southwest Detroit may...

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Detroit has partnered with the nonprofit American Forests, and a number of other state and local conservation groups, on an initiative to grow more trees in the city.
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Detroit’s tree canopy is growing, despite federal funding cuts

Amanda LeClaire April 2, 2025

American Forests, the nation’s oldest conservation nonprofit, says Detroit has planted 25,000 trees since launching a local tree equity partnership...

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

Jenny Sherman 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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