that is the result we see today is the result of that is they took care of that resource and prioritized it.

Yeah, I'll add to that that aside from the lack of natural precipitation that occurs here, the limited natural precipitation, our temperature range favors the growth of very wide variety of trees we can grow things here that maybe can't withstand the winters of areas further north and further east but we can also grow things here that that I can't withstand the super super hot temperatures provided that we we give them the water that they need and it's kind of Nate and I were actually just talking about this yesterday how I'll be responding to a constituent later today who's concerned with us focusing on preservation of existing mature trees rather than constantly focusing on planting new trees and caring for new trees.

And we're realizing that the environment here is unique in that Telling people that they have to water a tree, any tree, a mature tree or a new tree, is something that most cities east of us do not have to deal with.

If no one waters a tree, it doesn't matter.

The tree's going to grow and survive at a higher rate than it would here.

To answer your original question, though, the reason we have this vast forest is because generations of people have chosen to nurture the trees in a kind of a controlled garden-like environment.

And that makes it a unique place to have a forest.

in the summer you're doing obviously very different stuff than maybe in the winter prepping planting all of that

So how are you making sure that that ratio ensures that we don't have to endure that? We don't have to endure decades of, you know, shadeless parks.

Oh, that's just an awesome question because you're thinking about it in the exact way that municipalities have to think about that.

And there's two primary components and then a bunch of little factors that are associated with both of those.

One is planting trees.

And the other is keeping trees alive longer so that we don't end up starting over from scratch and waiting for a long time before a park looks like Liberty Park or Washington Square or Fairmont Park or some of these wonderful parks that we get to have in our city.

And on both of these fronts, I think I'm happy to report that the city has been doing pretty darn good for the last almost decade now.

But over the last six years of our current mayor's administration, we've planted far and away more trees than the city has in recent or in recorded time.

How will Trolley Square's mitigation funds be used? Where does that money go?