(THE COLLEGE FIX) – People of color living in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities are victims of “tree inequity,” according to a research group known as American Forests.
The group found that found that trees are disproportionately planted in wealthier and whiter neighborhoods and thus have “deprived many communities of color of the health and other benefits that sufficient tree cover can deliver.”
The new Tree Equity Score, funded in part by the United States Forest Service, uses a 100-point system to determine whether there are enough trees planted in a given neighborhood.
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