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Technology and Trees

We visit an inner city high school where students are learning how software tools can be used for urban planning, right on their school grounds. They are using Geographic Information Systems software in their efforts to increase tree canopy in the nation's capital.

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The Casey Tree Foundation

The Casey Tree Foundation, based in Washington D.C., exists to restore, enhance, and protect the tree canopy of the Nation's Capital.
Audoban Naturalist

This article, from the Audubon Naturalist, looks at the work the Casey Tree Endowment is doing to restore Washington D.C.'s past reputation as a "City of Trees."
American Forests CITYGreen

This website, from American Forests, takes a look at the GIS software that the students at McKinley were using.

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A student swings a pick axe to break through the rocks in the soil.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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