There's a massive effort in Detroit to get its greening underway.
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The city agreed to let Greening of Detroit use the 125-acre Walter
Meyers Nursery site to grow its tree supply and as a venue for its
outreach programs. In exchange, the nonprofit group will invest an
estimated $500,000 to redevelop the site, which for the most part has
lay dormant for decades.
"At
some point we want to replant as many trees as the city needs," says
Greening of Detroit President Rebecca Salminen Witt. "We knew we needed
to increase our tree-planting capacity."
Greening expects to
plant 20,000 young trees on the site in the next eight years. Paul
Bairley, the nonprofit's director of urban forestry, hopes to start
planting the nursery by spring 2010. It will be three to five years
after that before any of the new trees are mature enough for city
plantings.
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