Episode 29 - Inside Richmond: The City's Pulse | What Richmond's Tree Inventory Revealed

Richmond has been quietly doing something most cities put off for years: counting and assessing its public trees one by one. In this episode, Lindsay Darnell is joined by Thomas Hill, GIS Coordinator for the City of Richmond; Laura Karnes, ISA Certified Arborist at Richmond Parks & Recreation; and Schelby Schlager, IU ERI McKinney Climate Fellow working with the City through an Urban Green Governance grant, to discuss Richmond's new tree inventory and what it reveals about the city's urban forest. The group explains how thousands of public trees are being evaluated, what the early data...