Tag: Tree People
New urban forest officer named to manage canopy: ‘City is home to the nation’s largest urban forest’
It’s official, Los Angeles has a City Forest Officer. Rachel Malarich was appointed last month by Mayor Eric Garcetti to the new post, which was created to oversee the growth of Los Angeles’ urban forest and help the city reach its goal to plant 90,000 trees by 2021. “Rachel has the vision, experience and expertise […]
Quiet crisis: Saving trees in Los Angeles, and city’s livability
Throughout Los Angeles, trees are in decline. It is a quiet crisis, and it’s accelerating. Losing trees begins a vicious cycle of creating an ever-hotter and drier urban climate that threatens public health and the very livability of our city. Last year, I attended a presentation by the Urban Forester of Santa Monica, who said […]
Thirty days of tree planting, Bingo and Dr. Seuss
It rained on the first day of Brad Jamison’s volunteer challenge: “Thirty Days of Service, Improving the world, and myself… one day at a time.” He was to drive to the Angeles Forest for a Tree People project that was now cancelled. Undaunted, the McCadden Place resident soon found another volunteer job to […]
