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Downtown Nashville lands designation as an arboretum

Caroline Eggers

May 28, 2025

Downtown Nashville is now officially designated as an outdoor library for trees.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: conservation, heat, trees, urban trees

Is planting trees ‘DEI’? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort

Eva Tesfaye, WWNO

March 27, 2025

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The Trump administration’s efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

Filed Under: Environment, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Arbor Day, DEI, diversity, trees, Trump Administration

NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Happy new year!

Miriam Kramer

January 1, 2025

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What were our favorite NashVillager essays of 2024?

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, trees

NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Under the trees

Catherine Sweeney

December 31, 2024

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What are your tree stories? 

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, trees

Logging threatens a scientific research area in Franklin State Forest

Caroline Eggers

September 11, 2024

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The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is developing a plan to sell timber from the Franklin State Forest on the Cumberland Plateau.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: conservation, forests, Franklin State Forest, tennessee department of agriculture, trees

Nashville is 53-56% forested. Here’s why it probably doesn’t seem that way.

Caroline Eggers

June 28, 2024

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Nashville may have the largest urban tree canopy among major U.S. cities.  In December, the city published its first comprehensive urban tree canopy assessment measuring our trees — and tree loss — over an 11-year period. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: conservation, Flooding, heat, trees, urban trees

Tornadoes topple trees. What does that mean for forests?

Caroline Eggers

December 14, 2023

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Tornadoes snapped and felled trees across the region this weekend. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: December 2023 tornadoes, December tornadoes, forests, severe weather, trees

Dirt bikes are polluting a Tennessee forest. The state took action.

Caroline Eggers

July 11, 2023

State finds “significant impact to erosion control, water quality, forest health, and other forms of recreation.”

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: erosion, pollution, tennessee department of agriculture, trees

Middle Tennessee’s largest forest is part of Nashville. Citizens want protection.

Caroline Eggers

June 14, 2023

Before Nashville finalizes its annual budget this month, citizens are demanding one new line item: funding for Middle Tennessee’s largest contiguous forest, which is in the Highland Rim.

Filed Under: Environment, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: beaman park, geology, highland rim, Radnor Lake State Park, trees, Warner Parks, Whites Creek

The windstorm took out 600 trees in Nashville. Here’s why.

Caroline Eggers

March 7, 2023

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Oak trees splintered. Sugar maples uprooted. Some trees crashed across Nashville streets, and hundreds of trees took out power lines.  Nashville officials received reports for nearly 600 fallen trees on Friday following the windstorm. The total tally could be higher. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: environment, Nashville, Nashville Tree Conservation Corps, storm, trees, urban canopy, windstorm

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