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Healthy Trees Coming Soon

If you've driven down Yale Street between 51st and 61st it’s easy to see some ash trees on medians are in poor condition. These trees were planted 20+ years ago and have unfortunately reached their limit on root growth at this location. To ensure a healthy long-living urban forest, Up With Trees will be replacing these trees with ten new trees.

Typically ash trees live much longer, but because medians are considered a type of container for trees, there is only so much soil capacity for their roots to grow causing them to become stressed. When humans get stressed, they sometimes lose hair. Similarly, when trees are stressed they fail to leaf...

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