Reforest unused urban spaces

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Bellevue, WA, 98006
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Use all those little slivers of land, median strips, parking lots islands, etc., to grow low maint. thickets
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Lots of paved land surfaces are currently available for reforestation. Look at the center of almost any city or town and you will see opportunities for little pieces of land, sometimes only a 2-foot wide sliver of asphalt in the middle of a street, to be given back to nature by planting the right kind of vegetation.

 

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