Betty

I wonder if my fellow travelers could help me with a school assignment. I am a high school student taking a class and was assigned a paper where I have to do some reserch into urban forests. I was told to find out what American city has the most trees per square mile. I have looked everywhere but can not find the answer. (there is supose to be a study on every topic!).

So I thought I would go to my favorite message board to find out. I am sure travelers know? So, what is the answer.

Bill

Hi Betty-Here is a link to the arbor day foundation where you might find the information you are looking for. Everything related to trees you can find there. You can also make a donation and they will send you seedlings to plant.

http://www.arborday.org/

jim

Probably Minneapolis or Portland, but just a guess.

fla

Gainesville, Florida. The trees are protected, one must get a permit to cut them down, even on your own property.

MrsWalsh

It will be useful if you learn how to do research on the internet for the future, so I'll tells you how to do that rather than giving you the answer. It's not that hard, use a good search engine like "google" www.google.com Type into the search box your phrase "trees per square mile". The results page gives you sites with that phrase and you can easily see several cities that claim this title--the first two Google page results show 4 US cities claiming that. Read the resulting URLs for further info.

Betty

My internet search came up with Atlanta, Memphis and Pittsburg all claiming to have the most trees per square mile.

Atlanta, maybe 20 years ago.

Pittsburg, maybe in the hills outside of town

Memphis, I doubt it

Still looking.

atlanta

Atlanta will claim absolutely anything. Look under fewest trees and Atlanta will be there too.

The only thing Atlanta is #1 in is fewest teeth per capita.

Checkit

Savannah and WashDC.

x

Louisiana seems to have a lot of trees so I would guess New Orleans would have to be high on the list.

travellyn

Believe it or not, Houston, TX is high on the list of cities with the most trees.

Vance

As an airline pilot for United I have a birdseye view of many cities in the United States. Here are my votes for the cities with the largest amounts of trees:

* Washington DC (area)

* Atlanta (though they are losing trees fast to mega sprawl-though there were so many to start with)

* Raleigh (also losing fast to sprawl)

* Tallahasse, FL

* Columbia SC

* Nashville

Just from my viewpoint in the plane

Vinnie

I think a city with alot of trees is a place that makes poor use of their land. Trees are for the countryside and for parks. I prefer an urban place like San Francisco or New York City.

Anne

Vinnie is partially right. Under the new city planning thinking, development is very dense, which leaves very little space for trees. When a house and the driveway takes up 90 percent of the lot, again there is little room for trees.

Under this "smart growth system" have you noticed that the last few woodlands in the cities have been cut down for dense development like townhouses.

In my neighborhood, built in the 1950s, the house and driveway only takes up 20 percent of the lot, so there is lots of room for trees. Which is smarter growth?

WhyNotJustAnswer

Believe it or not, Utica NY

but who cares? is anyone gonna visit that "most treed city" because of it?

Let us keep the threads to TRAVEL, not Betty's homework assignment.

Does anyone know which ethnic group has the most nose-hairs?

pretty stupid, huh?

Monica

Anne: Actually, the concept behind smart growth would be to have the three story town houses close together with a park for everyone to share nearby. As someone who lives in a big sprawly area (SF Bay Area) I think it's smart. Leave the green areas green, have some real open space, close to where the people live.

Billy

The look of a city (how many trees it has) is very travel related and an important issue in determining if I plan to visit a city. I want to visit beautiful areas not ugly ones.

John

Hi Betty,

At the risk of having some indisputable facts . . . or perhaps fancy.

I have a mountain home in the Coconino forest in Arizona. The 'urban area' is called xxxxxxxxxx. The zip code is purportedly the second smallest in the U.S.. Since this is in the midst of the largest Ponderosa pine forest in the world one could conclude there are more trees per square mile than anywhere else.

Your challenge Betty is to determine the zip code!!!! Happy hunting

kam

When we lived there 15 years ago, Evanston, Illinois claimed that title. Don't know if it was official or if it still stands.They have had a problem with Dutch elm disease although they are replacing the elms with other trees.

M.M.

Swarthmore,Pennsylvannia aka Tree City,USA.It's a well known fact that Swarthmore has more trees than a Polish bride has nose hairs.

x

Yea, good thinking that since Louisiana has a lot of trees, New Orleans would be high on the list. I understand New York State has an incredible amount of forested acreage, so I assume Manhattan is mainly forest.