The removal of 35 specimen trees from Roswell’s Mimosa Hall has stirred deep emotions. Some of the trees, believed to be as old as 150 years, were cleared to make way for the redevelopment of the grounds and the Founders Park project. Roswell plans to add 12 new native trees as part of a native […]
Tag: Tree Canopy
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Trees of Atlanta – various dates and locations
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Atlanta needs to better protect and expand its tree canopy
For nearly a dozen years, there’s been aborted effort after aborted effort to strengthen Atlanta’s tree ordinance and expand the city’s tree canopy. Fortunately, after months (even years) of little to no progress, there’s now movement.
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Atlanta’s ‘green soul:’ Trees, the big picture, amid talk of a tree protection ordinance
By Guest Columnist OSCAR HARRIS, an Atlanta architect, entrepreneur and mentor
Atlanta’s trees are revered worldwide as our special natural “green soul” symbol of our city.
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City of Atlanta seeking to protect nature while the urban area grows
For the first time in its history, the city of Atlanta has completed an in-depth study of its ecology as a way to help protect our natural environment while anticipating a greater growth in population and density.
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Over 8,000 healthy trees felled yearly as promised protections stall
By Guest Columnist LEIGH BURTON FINLAYSON, a resident of Grant Park
According to a report distributed by the Atlanta City Planning Department at an Atlanta City Council tree ordinance work session last autumn, 48,306 healthy trees were cut or cleared in the last six years within the city limits of Atlanta (Fiscal Year 2014 to 2019). The City blessed the cutting of these trees, issuing the necessary permits for their removal.
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As furor rises over tree cutting in Atlanta, city looks to extend tree-planting program
Amid the rising furor in Atlanta over the future of the tree canopy as trees are felled for development on a continuing basis, the city is considering allocating $1.7 million to renew contracts with two organizations that plant and help maintain trees on city-controlled land – Trees Atlanta and Tri-Scapes Inc.
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What Atlanta decides on tree canopy could benefit people as well as urban forest
By Guest Columnist KATHRYN KOLB, a naturalist who serves as director of EcoAddendum and also consults with communities on tree ordinances
As more of Atlanta’s trees fall to new development, the city plans to update its Tree Protection Ordinance. New tree ordinance revisions are being drafted in the next few weeks, so the time is now to embrace the moment and help our city’s leaders take the responsible road forward in protecting more of our irreplaceable trees and superlative urban forest.
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The tree massacre at the Bobby Jones Golf Course a blow to Atlanta
Back during the Civil War, the land that is now known as the Bobby Jones Golf Course was a battlefield that witnessed one of the bloodiest battles of the Atlanta Campaign.
Today, the Bobby Jones Golf Course has become a battlefield once again. But this time, the casualties were more than 800 trees that were cut down to make way for a redeveloped Bobby Jones Golf Course.
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APS seeks to cut down dozens of healthy trees for Howard middle school project
The Atlanta Public Schools is seeking to cut down 60 trees on a key piece of property in the center of the city.
The trees have been growing on the land that surrounds the former David T. Howard Elementary School from the days when Martin Luther King Jr. attended the elementary school – only a few blocks away from his birth home.
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Struggle over East Atlanta development heads to Council committee
Atlanta’s Zoning Review Board voted a moment of relief to some of the folks in an East Atlanta neighborhood yesterday, when board members recommended the city deny a developer’s rezoning plan that envisions building 20 houses in a place known as “Ormewood Forest.”
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Ormewood Forest an opportunity to preserve a key piece of Atlanta’s tree canopy
Protecting Atlanta’s urban tree canopy is facing a real-world challenge in East Atlanta.
An inspiring group of neighbors and citizen activists have launched a grassroots initiative – Save Ormewood Forest – a 6-acre tract with old-growth trees.
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Photo Pick: Peachtree Hills Park Destruction by Laura Dobson
Earlier this year Maria Saporta reported on plans for Peachtree Hills Park. Now the damage is beginning. Laura Dobson says “They have put a street through the park. No other way to say it. It is unbelievable. For scale, that’s s dump truck in the background of the first photo.” Read the column from earlier this […]
