Just one battle in the fight to save tree canopy. Dawn redwood loses battle to development in August, 2018. ... The 114-foot high dawn redwood tree on N. Ohio Street in May, 2018.

In 2008, Mayor Thomas M. Menino vowed that Boston would plant 100,000 new trees by 2020, expanding the city’s tree canopy by 20 percent. Boston, however, fell woefully short.

According to the commission’s report, the city saw a tree canopy loss of 660 acres, or 10% of the total canopy, between 2004 and 2018 and projects a total loss of at least 990 acres between 2004 ...

The Meadowview Urban Tree Project, or MUTP — a grassroots volunteer effort aiming to reshape the equity of Sacramento’s tree canopy — is responding by removing stumps and planting trees for ...

The county’s tree cover appears to have shrunk from 41% in 2016 — the last time the county conducted a tree canopy assessment — to 33% in 2021, according to a privately funded analysis.

Charlotte has had a longstanding goal of building up Charlotte’s tree canopy coverage to 50% by 2050. The city’s most recent analysis of its tree canopy found that Charlotte is losing an ...

The city of Charlotte said it lost about 1,000 acres of trees from 2018 to 2022. At the current rate of loss, the city would have a 40% canopy by 2050.

CHARLOTTE — Local leaders in Charlotte want 50% of the city to be covered with tree canopy, but while data says it has declined in recent years, new policies may help reverse the trend.

The problem: Two grand trees, a southern live oak with a canopy towering over most of the plot, and a spindly American elm, were in the way. The oak could live for hundreds of years, one board ...