- Trees Atlanta
Trees Atlanta is a
non-profit organization inAtlanta , Georgia,United States that seeks to preserve andprotect the city's trees. The group employs a full-time staff of tree-care professionals and maintains an extensive network of volunteers, who work together to enrich the city'squality of life through bothbeautification and improvedair quality .The group's main activities include planting new trees and
sapling s throughout the city, maintaining the health of the city's existing tree cover, restoring and conserving large tracts of urbangreenspace and educating the public about the importance of trees.Since being founded in 1985 as a business-district beautification organization, Trees Atlanta has planted and distributed over 68,000 shade trees.cite web |url=http://www.treesatlanta.org/aboutus.html |title= About Us|accessdate=2007-09-13 |work=TreesAtlanta.org |publisher=Trees Atlanta ] The organization relies on its regular volunteer base of over 800 to plant and maintain trees throughout
Atlanta (insideI-285 ).In 2007, Trees Atlanta was given $US $350,000 to plant the first mile of a proposed twenty-two mile urban arboreteum.cite news |first=Maria |last=Saporta |title=Blank Foundation helps keep Beltline in the shade |url=http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/saporta/stories/2007/09/09/saporta_0910.html |work=
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |publisher=Cox Enterprises |date=2007-09-10 |accessdate=2007-09-13 ]References
External links
* [http://www.treesatlanta.org Trees Atlanta]
* [http://www.actrees.org Alliance for Community Trees]
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