Despite an ambitious urban forestry plan initiated almost ten years ago aimed at increasing tree coverage, San Francisco faces a concerning decline in street trees, with numbers dropping from 124,795 in 2017 to 124,487 today. Areas like Bayview are particularly affected, suffering a loss of 350 trees since 2022. Local activists point out that newly planted trees are often neglected and die quickly, exacerbating the tree deficit in lower-income neighborhoods. San Francisco's tree canopy, at only 13.7%, is significantly lower than that of both Oakland and New York City, highlighting disparities in urban greening efforts.
If you go there, you'll see barren blocks of land, about areas where new trees were placed.
All of those trees look really terrible; they died so quickly, I have a feeling they were neglected.
It would be nice to have at least something there to put some anxiety.
San Francisco's urban canopy is one of the smallest in the United States, covering just 13.7 percent of its area.
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