Green Inventory In D.C.

An inventory of D.C. trees will create a $1 million database that will be available to city agencies.

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May 31, 2002, 1:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"College interns from around the country will be working with local volunteers and high school students, fanning out into every city neighborhood in teams of three.By Aug. 15, if all goes well, the city's estimated 100,000 street trees and 38,000 empty street-tree spaces will have been inventoried and the identity, size and health of each tree plugged into a $1 million database, which will be made available to various city agencies."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Every Tree Counts: A D.C. Census of What Grows Where

Friday, May 31, 2002 in The Washington Post

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