Trees trucked to Detroit neighbourhood in effort to help create instant, forest-like setting
DETROIT – Trees are being trucked to Detroit as part of an effort to create an instant, forest-like setting in one neighbourhood.
Columnist Laura Berman of The Detroit News reports (http://bit.ly/ZpNX2m) the work aims to show what trees planted for the Hantz Woodlands project might look like a decade from now. In May, hundreds of people planted 15,000 saplings on land bordered by burned-out homes and abandoned apartments.
This week, 150 mature trees are being planted on the city’s east side. Tree broker Keith Alexander located 20-foot-tall sugar maples in Michigan and New York. He says he has planted trees before in Detroit “but never a woods” and called it “inspiring.”
Entrepreneur John Hantz believes agriculture and forestry can play an important role in bankrupt Detroit.
Information from: The Detroit News, http://detnews.com/
(The Associated Press, AP Member)