An important consideration for initiatives like this is where trees are planted. Trees on public land — ensuring an adequate maintenance budget is key. But trees on private land (front and backyards) is much trickier. Equity in this regard needs to be front and center. https://twitter.com/tpl_org/status/1299477109841309696

Whose values are prioritized, who will be in charge of stewarding the tree(s), whose burden the tree becomes — if the goal is to increase trees in marginalized communities we know it’ll be someone else’s priorities but the burden & stewardship on people who don’t need more burden

This is a different kind of equity thinking than what this article described. Community engagement doesn’t erase the fact that it’s a top-down initiative with lasting effects.

Something relevant to our work @BethanyCutts @lriversiii

And this is why we are conducting a study on this very phenomenon, thanks to a @forestservice grant.