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and steve duffy says the forestry department plans to plant about 100 more by the end of the year. >> nature goes so to get kids out with native plants, with trees, they can all work together and i think it's pretty special. bill: according to save the redwoods, more than 95% of the natural redwood forest has been lost due to deforestation, wildfires, and yes, climate change. and for him, plantings are just a start. he hopes to plant millions of redwoods all over the world using our littlest citizens to help so the seeds -- sow the seeds for a healthier planet. >> we have been planting thousands of these redwoods in the seattle area. england, wales, ireland, australia, british columbia. the schools are calling and saying we will need a heck of a lot more of these redwoods and sequoias because we want our schoolchildren to start reinforcing. don't be surprised in 10 years when you drive up. they will be 30 or 40 foot tall. bill: as the old proverb goes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. the second best time is now. the meaning may not don on these tree -- dawn on these ch

forestry plan and sections 16 for the city. so our concern is that having competing departments having their own process to move trees circumventingnly real authority which is urban forestry has for maintaining the street trees is a concerning problem for the city and then also we have park and rec that have no knowledge of how they have a tree removed. do we do a new park? there's a lot of canopy, more than what's been said today lost over the last five years. so i think that because of it's been discussed that there are other ways to look at the canopy and find out how much is actually been lost in the last five years. thank you very much. >>. >> we have the next caller. >> thanks for taking my comment. i'm in anticipation valley and i travel frequently to chinatown now more to the sunset hall three neighborhoods seriously lacktrees. when it's hot there's no tree shading. when wendy there are no trees that flow down. when it's noisy there are no trees to make noise. it's awful . and when i lookand compare the places throughout other neighborhoods it's unfair. please quickly find the funding to expand the urban forest to more nei

and this was all administrated through the oklahoma agriculture department, food and forestry, very successful program. you know, a lot of times things we do in government does not in this case, this program really works. get the money out to the states, get the capital out there to get these small plants going. but don't forget to get us some federal inspectors as well. >> well, that's great. you know, it's no secret that the agriculture industry has struggled to retain reliable, consistent and well trained workforce, especially during covid 19. now i know for a fact that a lot of the money that people have received during the covid time that might have been long gone. you know, and so people are available. there's no more government assistance. except for to try to control the vaccine. in your own opinion, what would be some changes congress can make to address this shortage, especially in rural areas, which i represent some rural areas and ensure that current and future workers have the mechanism for reporting abuse and retaliatory behavior within the industry. that is for all the members o

forestry needs to reserve the right on making the final pcs decision. just in the last few weeks another layer of review has come up through the preservation team with the planning department to is checking in with public works citywide in certain areas to just say they want to make sure when we replaced trees if there is a historic preservation in mind that we are bearing that in mind so we reached out to them to say we have a hearing and i need to is feedback asap. is still in conversation with them. but there are, there's a cultural landscape report for this block 354 and the guidance is to replace species that would be in keeping with the civic center area. so we're going to continue to work with the senior historic preservation contact to really just get under the hood and understand those red maple, is that going to be in line. we believe it will be noted that the ficus trees are here on the bottom left of the image. regarding tree basin construction the appellants who i again appreciate all the advocacyand work that we jointly put in . they asked involve a landscape architect to review basin construction sothis ties into replanting . we really jointly determined tha

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forestry needs to reserve the right on making the final pcs decision. just in the last few weeks another layer of review has come up through the preservation team with the planning departmentcking in with public works citywide in certain areas to just say they want to make sure when we replaced trees if there is a historic preservation in mind that we are bearing that in mind so we reached out to them to say we have a hearing and i need to is feedback asap. is still in conversation with them. but there are, there's a cultural landscape report for this block 354 and the guidance is to replace species that would be in keeping with the civic center area. so we're going to continue to work with the senior historic preservation contact to really just get under the hood and understand those red maple, is that going to be in line. we believe it will be noted that the ficus trees are here on the bottom left of the image. regarding tree basin construction the appellants who i again appreciate all the advocacyand work that we jointly put in . they asked involve a landscape architect to review basin construction sothis ties into replanting . we really jointly determined that sometime

forestry needs to reserve the right on making the final pcs decision. just in the last few weeks another layer of review has come up through the preservation team with the planning department to is checking in with public works citywide in certain areas to just say they want to make sure when we replaced trees if there is a historic preservation in mind that we are bearing that in mind so we reached out to them to say we have a hearing and i need to is feedback asap. is still in conversation with them. but there are, there's a cultural landscape report for this block 354 and the guidance is to replace species that would be in keeping with the civic center area. so we're going to continue to work with the senior historic preservation contact to really just get under the hood and understand those red maple, is that going to be in line. we believe it will be noted that the ficus trees are here on the bottom left of the image. regarding tree basin construction the appellants who i again appreciate all the advocacyand work that we jointly put in . they asked involve a landscape architect to review basin construction sothis ties into replanting . we really jointly determined tha