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<br /> BUDGET PLANTING PLANTING VACANT CITY RESIDENTIAL
<br /> TREND 1989 1992
<br /> SPACES TREE TREE
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<br /> LIFE LIFE
<br /> decrease 2,193 2,380
<br /> - - 67,866 13 37
<br /> getting worse 789
<br /> 2,000 unknown 18 50
<br /> downward 1,000 - -
<br /> -
<br /> 1,000 unknown 10 35
<br /> grossly under funded 750 1,500 100,000 10 25
<br /> dynamic - -- 4,089 12,000 unknown 6 -- 25 - --
<br /> getting worse 20 -- 1,000 _ 30,000 8 - - 40 - -
<br /> downward 50 400 NA 13 23
<br /> cut back 1992 6,000 6,000 50,000 10 25 j
<br /> down slightly 904 500 200,000 15 48 - -"
<br /> holding 300 200 4,500 10 35
<br /> cut past 9 years 3,000 5,000 6 figures 20 40
<br /> dropping behind 1,500 1,625 50,000 6 40
<br /> cut back economics 2,000 2,250 40,000 20 45
<br /> decrease 10,261 4,268 unknown unknown unknown
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<br /> emergencies /complaints -- 2,000 - - -_. 2,000 4,000 10 25
<br /> 0
<br /> emergencies complaints 2,000 0
<br /> 100,000 11 50
<br /> - - - -- - - - --
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<br /> lower than workload 4 00 900 16,00() 15 35
<br /> decrease 30 0 475 250,000 18 38
<br /> cut summer interns 5,400 3,000 100,000 18 38
<br /> more maintenance 30 0 386 227 18 60
<br /> increase 2,800 3,100 30
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<br /> - -- - - - - -- 5,400 - - - - -- - -- 1 � - - - - - -- - ------ - - - - -- I
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<br /> involved. The survey - - -
<br /> i track tree mortality over
<br /> reveals answers to straight- an entire generation. Our
<br /> forward questions like: TREES PLANTED & REMOVED , estimates ot the average
<br /> How may potential tree Average in 20 Cities j age of urban trees and
<br /> places exist along your overall planting needs of
<br /> streets, and how many urban forests combined
<br /> trees are growing there? 3500
<br /> information from this
<br /> How many trees are plant- recent survey with one
<br /> A. 3000
<br /> ed each year, and how rt
<br /> Atli we did over a 10 -year
<br /> many are removed? Flow 2500 h ,_ I period from 1975 to 1985.
<br /> long does a tree live, and 2000 z ( j By combining information
<br /> what kind of care does it
<br /> receive? 1500 ° mss' • gathered in both surveys,
<br /> Obviously, if more trees 1000 = ' , we were able to extend
<br /> r r ,
<br /> the measuring period
<br /> die than are replaced, your ' p .�
<br /> urban forest is in trouble. 11 Soo ,.- _+ i '. / J closer to a full generation.
<br /> o / Ae A measures urban
<br /> that trend continues for a 9 tree conditions by collect-
<br /> 1989 1990 1991
<br /> decade or so, the trouble
<br /> ing data on some basic
<br /> mushrooms. The most IM PLANTED IM REMOVED health indicators, includ-
<br /> accurate measure of the The decline in removals in 1991 is due to cuts in ti'' lnrd ei,. ing the number of trees
<br /> health of a forest would More dead tree; remain titaudur 011 the strec't<. planted versus the
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<br /> A\u;alcAN Foitisrs M: \RL1iAritrt 1002
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