Massive greening project going forward in Detroit

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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