Grassroots Greening: Saving Cleveland's Tree Canopy
Welcome back! After a long hiatus, I’ve decided to bring back the blog with this post on urban tree canopies in Cuyahoga County. I intend to start publishing posts on a regular basis again, but the cadence is still undecided. Further updates will be provided in the next post. Ever since the Sustainable Cleveland initiative (now the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability) was first launched in 2009, improving the tree canopy has been a major focus for many in both local government and the community development space. While the organization was, and still is, primarily focused on mitigating climate change, working to improve the tree canopy in the “Forest City” has also been an important touchpoint in recent years. Tree canopy by census tract in Cuyahoga County, 2019. Cleveland is outlined in black. Source: Cuyahoga County Planning Commission We’ve long known of the immense disparities in tree canopy coverage between Cleveland proper and the suburbs, ones that contribute to social deter...
