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Saturday morning, St. Casimir Church in Cleveland ’s St. Clair-Superior neighborhood is joining forces with the Western Reserve Land Conservancy to plant trees as part of an initiative called Reforesting Cleveland Starts Here.For the past decade, the land conservancy has been laser-focused on increasing the city’s tree canopy .On the grounds of St. Casimir Church , holes will soon be filled with various new trees.“And as you can see here, it's good stuff.
And another 200 are going into the ground this fall. Some were recently added outside of Willson School and surrounding streets.“It'd be great to bring it back to where it used to be. Remember, Cleveland used to be called the Forest City,” Niedzialek said.Schreiber said Cleveland’s tree canopy is at about 18%.“A healthy city has between 30% and 40% canopy and our canopy is declining every year,” Schreiber said.
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