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Getting a head start on Arbor Day
By: Shawn Patrick
9News
April 23, 2008
DENVER - Mayor John Hickenlooper joined local volunteers to plant nearly 200 trees along Auraria Parkway and Speer Boulevard Wednesday.
The revitalization project supports a program known as "Tree By Tree - The Mile High Million."
As part of Denver's Greenprint vision for the environment, the city plans to plant 75,000 trees this year and 1 million trees over the next two decades across the metro area.
At a news conference Wednesday, Hickenlooper touted the environmental impact of the trees.
"One hundred trees, when they reach maturity, will remove 12 tons of carbon dioxide annually, and remove 250 pounds of other pollutants every year," said Hickenlooper.
The trees planted Wednesday have replaced several dozen trees removed because of their poor condition, according to Sara Davis, program coordinator for Tree By Tree - The Mile High Million.
Davis says 53 trees on the south side of Auraria are being removed because each is in poor condition from a structural and plant health standpoint.
About 100 small hawthorn shrubs are being removed, says Davis, because many are dead or in advanced decline.
Davis says the goal of the project is to remove dead, unhealthy, and potentially hazardous trees from Auraria Parkway and replace them with a diverse and well adapted palette of new low-water trees.
The Colorado Convention Center bought the new trees, and EDAW, a land-use, planning and design firm, donated landscape architecture services.
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