Casey Trees

Tree Planting

Tree Planting is a measure of how many trees are planted each year.

How did we come up with the grade? 
We used information from Casey Trees tree planting programs as well as data obtained from the National Park Service, the U.S. General Services Administration, and the District government related to tree planting activity in 2008.

We compared those numbers with the results of a survey of cities across the U.S. We only used data for cities east of the Mississippi and on the west coast (these are places where high tree cover is natural; we purposely did not compare DC with cities in the Great Plains or the desert southwest as those areas do not naturally have high tree cover). The survey was published by the Trust for Public Land.

It should noted that the survey included street and park trees but did not explicitly include trees planted by NGOs such as Casey Trees.

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