News | LAist | July 2023

Inside Urban Forestry

The rules are complex, but you can get involved.

In 2019, former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti hired a new position. That role was a city forest officer who’d focus on integrating an equitable approach to the city’s urban forestry goals. Among those goals: planting tens of thousands of new trees, significantly increasing tree coverage and increasing urban forestry funding. So what progress has been made?