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…of about 175,000 acres per year, which corresponds to approximately 36 million trees per year. View report. Canopy Studies & Inventories, Community Planning, Urban & Community Forestry External Website Deregulation…

Canopy Studies & Tree Inventories

Depletion of Georgia’s Tree Canopy According to a 2006 study, the Atlanta region lost an average of 50 acres of tree canopy per day between 1991 and 2005. For each…

Trees Across Georgia (TAG) Grant Program

…Program. The program is designed to encourage projects that plant trees and increase the benefits of tree canopy, create and support long-term and sustained urban and community forestry programs, and…

Community Forestry Assistance

…able to offer programs that provide financial assistance to encourage projects that plant trees and increase the benefits of tree canopy, create and support long-term and sustained urban and community…

Georgia Gets Growing with Tree-planting Grants

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…These grants will help to protect and grow tree canopy where it is needed most in GA communities. These grant recipients are acting decisively to increase tree canopy for Georgians…

Care For Your Community’s Trees

Benefits of a thriving urban canopy: Increasing property value. The presence of larger street trees can add from 3% – 15% to home values. Increasing spending in business districts. Shoppers…

My Experience as an Urban and Community Forestry Intern

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…want to improve green infrastructure, mitigate tree canopy storm damage, and address tree canopy inequality. I think these are awesome ways to help smaller communities receive the benefits of a…

Newnan Tornado Recovery – One Year Later

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…that tore through the city. More than $75 million in losses were recorded from the F-4 storm and 567 acres of tree canopy were destroyed. Since that devastating evening in…