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Article: Trees - A different shade of green
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- High Country News
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- November 13, 2006
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Cities look to urban forests as a natural utility
During his 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan famously blamed trees for emitting 93 percent of the nation's nitrogen oxide pollution. Trees were worse for the environment than automobiles, he said, a statement that fueled decades of "killer tree" jokes.
Twenty-six years later, cities in Reagan's home state of California are trying to live down his dendrophobic reputation. In October, Los Angeles kicked off an effort to plant 1 million trees, part of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's election campaign promise to become "the biggest, greenest city" in America. Civic leaders in the Sacramento area are considering an even more ambitious ...