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Let’s Grow Trees to Cope with Heat Waves and Improve Health Outcomes

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The webinar “Leveraging Data, Partnerships and Policies to Unlock the Multiple Benefits of Trees” highlighted the health benefits of increasing the tree canopy in formerly redlined communities, showcased a new digital tree dashboard to identify the best locations for trees, and set a path forward to increase collaboration to address barriers to planting more trees. The Extreme Heat Task Force, co-chaired by us and the Office of Sustainability, will continue to identify opportunities to increase tree canopy in under-resourced communities. If you are interested in joining the task force, please contact Belen Seara, bseara@smcgov.org.