Chicago’s Parks Are Full of Trees, But No One Knows How Many. They’re About To Get Counted

Chicago’s Parks Are Full of Trees, But No One Knows How Many. They’re About To Get Counted

The Chicago Park District is undertaking an inventory of its trees — counting their numbers and recording their health — in order to develop a management plan.

Chicago’s parks are full of trees, but no one knows how many. They’re about to get counted

Read the full story from WTTW. In recent years, the district has bulked up its forestry program and has been aggressively planting new trees, Breitenbach said, but it has done so in the absence of a firm tree count. Estimates are somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000. Information on the species composition and health of the … Continue reading Chicago’s parks are full of trees, but no one knows how many. They’re about to get counted