European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Green islands amid the Gray Concrete of cities by Joy Aschenbach National geographic a a Ila a i it i. Kit fir mom pm a it i i w or l of a Loi us and Rig wonder the vory concept Onn Urban Forest scorns contradictory. Forests und cities Aren t up Posod to grow together vet 60 to to percent of urbanized areas m inc temperate regions of the world Meel the Coloia of Loress says Rowan a Rowntree of the u s. Fores service cities Are More wooded than we think. Treo cover about 30 percent of the land in an average u 3 City islands of Green have survived among the Gray Concrete even in densely populated new Vork City there Are 4, goo acres of Oak and Hickory forests most of whom in the Bronx in Iarj Borough of Queens there Are As Many Trees As there arc people Aboul i 8 million. The Forest preserve District of Cook county encompasses 65,000 acres of metropolitan Chicago. In As much As 80 percent of any american City excluding ils Central business District there is three to Lour limes More vegetation surface loaves shrubs. And grass than artificial surface Streels. Sidewalks parking lots and houses. When we Bay civics Are made of Concrete and building materials that s not really accurate town Leo says they arc made up mostly of vegetation among inc exceptions awesome cities in the arid Southwest such As Tucson Ariz Only recently have Foros lers paid much at Lention to the Urban Lores ecosystem which can influence local climate in provide a habitat Lor Olhorn plants and Irmil j is counting Trees in selected cities Scio untied slate by str Dyg Aerial photography satellite Ming is he is project Leader of the Forest service s station in Staci so. . The Forest service began a Small Urban forestry program in 1978. That year it joined the american forestry association in sponsoring the first National Urban foils try conference the third con Clrence is being held this december nationally Urban forests arc estimated to number in Iho millions o acres from the air Row Stroo says a typical us City Oxcell in the Southwest appears to be about a third Trees a third grass and a third artificial surface. About halt the City s residential a Louth is Parks and vacant land and inc other Lou Fly is commercial Industrial and institutional among the most forested ones Are i hone Buill on Hills such As Birmingham Ala. And Cincinnati where much of Ihen land is still undeveloped hillsides a Forest service study of new Orleans vireos live Oak Crape Myrtle slash Pine loblolly Pine and Southern Magnolia concluded that Hoy cons Vitulo a genuine Forest " about 21 percent of the developed part of inc City is covered by i cos canopy looking Down on Salt Lake cily you see a landscape thai looks like Connecticut rown tie says. In what was almost a Dosell Basin the City oven the years has created an Urban Forest " tree cover reduces water Runoff about 20 Porcell. In Carmel Calil Trees Are fevered i turns. Some 32.000 Trees mostly Lall Monterey Pine crowd the Ono Square Milo town tar outnumbering ils 4,700 people ours is actually a Village within a Forest says City forester Gary Kelly who keeps a computerized of carry in11 we it i not d to if try it i Viiu to a Levi no Uriel " on a Iii a Kinji Caln Atlanta is a in Virji e Ity within n for in More than 743 to ourm of ofom Inrid lint in 02 million Trees make Atli inn one of the most heavily to rested Urban areas in id country rut the Atlanta regional commission concerned Ilia Urhin sprawl might eventually Cicato a Lern Bly hot cily has sough advice from the Forest service in 1984, Trees Atlanta inc Lou cled by the Parks commission and City businesses began an Urban reforestation program in a number of Barren cow blown areas Dayton Ohio officials consulted Iho Forest service Aboul reducing summer Limo Lempira turns downtown rown Roe says recommend Lions included planting Moro Trees on Streels and parking lots and converting some Fols irom Black Asphalt o perforated Concrete blocks to Arfow Gians to grow through the air Green parking lot is about 10 degrees cooler to says. Rowntree Hopes eventually to develop computer programs to help individual cities determine inc optimum plan Lor Urban vegetation species o frees. Sie and location us As they prepare optimum plans Tor sower pipes roads and Lilily lines he says we could program Tor maximum summer shading Tor example then feed in maximum Access Lolow Sun in Sunshine in Winter can be critical part Clatty for people using solar collectors Lor Healing. Yol even without leaves a single sugar Maple can cause about a 40 percent reduction in the sunlight reaching a Southern exposure says Gordon m. Heidler. Orest meteorologist at the northeastern Forest eve Riemel Slaton in University Park. A. A Bare tree still has All those branches and wigs. And a Large mass up there in ils Crown an Island Sorott grows in the Middle at the Potomac River Between downtown Withington b.c., and to a Gli rate onto Bush Sonya of Arlington a on tie opposite Bank not teen. The met of Theodore Roosevelt Bland commute an Urban Forest at found in Mote american Cliet than Many people realize. Saturday september 12.1967 the stars and stripes Page 17
