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Saturday, June 9, 2018

Make Medford Beautiful. Plant a tree or a shrub

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Boston Globe

A tree grows in Boston? Not often enough.

A decade ago, Mayor Thomas M. Menino stood with other local officials in the Geneva Cliffs Urban Wild in Dorchester and vowed that Boston would plant 100,000 new trees by 2020, expanding the city’s tree canopy by 20 percent.

Not only has the city abandoned its goal for this decade, but it has barely kept up with tree mortality.

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