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Chicago Region Trees Initiative

Chicago's regional forest is critical infrastructure. Learn how the Chicago Region Trees Initiative leverages funding, knowledge, skills, and expertise to reach its goals.

The Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI) is based out of the Morton Arboretum and is working together to develop and implement strategies for a healthier, more diverse, more equitable urban forest by 2050.

Chicago’s regional forest is critical infrastructure, a community asset, that needs protection and improvement. Trees clean our air and water, reduce flooding, save energy, improve property values, provide habitat for wildlife, and contribute significant social and health benefits to people. In short, trees improve our quality of life.

But the region’s trees are threatened by many challenges including invasive plants and pests, development, and a lack of funding for planting and proper care. As the largest initiative of its kind in the United States, CRTI leverages funding, knowledge, skills, and expertise to reach its goals.

Paul Gordon is a Chicago Region Trees Initiative Stewardship Coordinator.

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