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Forrest Officer
Lunch and Learn with the City Forest Officer Starts September 30th

September 22, 2020

Please join us at the first webinar of the *NEW* series, Lunch and Learn with the City Forest Officer, Rachel Malarich. As the City's first ever Forest Officer, Ms. Malarich is excited to create this opportunity to connect regularly with the public

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100,000 Trees Surveyed in LA!

September 3, 2020

In order to plan the future of the urban forest, we need a catalog of what trees are already there, how big they are, and how well they are doing. In urban forestry, we use a tree inventory as a tool to understand what we are managing and what

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Welcome to new visiting scholar Professor Vivek Shandas!

August 6, 2020

We had a lot of good news on resources for urban forestry projects last month, which could not have come at a better time in light of the fiscal strains caused by the ongoing COVID-19 crisi. We are really excited about the selection of our first

LIDAR tree canopy LA County
New LA Tree Canopy LIDAR viewer available

July 24, 2020

If you are interested in seeing LA's tree canopy shown in detailed map form, now's your chance. If you haven't yet looked at the new viewer for the LA County LiDAR tree data, you really should take the time to do it. The original project, mapping

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On Our Way to 90,000 Trees

June 25, 2020

In the Green New Deal, Mayor Garcetti announced a goal to plant 90,000 trees by the end of 2021. I’m happy to share the news that as of April 30, 2020 we have planted 30,301 trees, a third of the way toward our goal. We are working with all City