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January 11, 2023 PRESS RELEASE Community Forester Course Registration Opens Soon

January 1, 2023 PRESS RELEASE Together, We Can Beat the Heat with Denver Digs Trees

August 1, 2022 PRESS RELEASE: TreeForce: Increasing Access to Good, Green Jobs

June 15, 2022 MEDIA ADVISORY: Companies Team Up with The Park People to Plant 100+ Trees and Accomplish Good, Green Work

January 1, 2022 PRESS RELEASE: Denverites: Ease Climate Anxiety by Planting Trees in 2022

September 25, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY: Volunteers to Plant 51 New Trees in Affordable Housing Community Trees will help battle poor air quality and high temps

Natalie Kerr, Colorado Community Media. As Earth Day and Arbor Day approach, Denver focuses investments on low tree-canopy neighborhoods. April 10, 2024.

Kyle Clark, Channel 9 News. Meet the crew planting trees in Denver neighborhoods. September 14, 2022.

Hayley Kwasniewski, Denver Post. TreeForce increases access to green jobs. August 8, 2022

Kyle Clark, Channel 9 News. A Word of Thanks. Let's plant some trees in neighborhoods that need them and help Coloradans who want to work get into the business of caring for those trees. July 27, 2022.

Denver Parks and Rec., Be a Smart Ash Program. Denver Digs Trees Program Offers Low-Cost and Free Trees to Denver Residents. January 18, 2022.

The Denver Foundation, Floodlight Blog. Community Voice: Denver Digs Trees Addresses the City’s Tree Equity Gap. September 21, 2021.

The Colorado Sun. There’s a shady (and leafy) divide between Denver’s whiter, wealthier neighborhoods and everyone else. August 18, 2021.

The New York Times. Denver Wants to Fix a Legacy of Environmental Racism: Historically, trees and city parks in America go to wealthy, white neighborhoods. Now, a program in Colorado’s capital is trying to correct that injustice. September 30, 2020.

Denver 7 ABC. Denver Digs Trees is transforming the city's landscape after more than 51,000 trees planted. Jan 26, 2019

Denver 7 ABC. Denver to plant thousands of trees in disadvantaged neighborhoods to bridge 'tree equity gap.' September 19, 2023.

Denver Post. Tree canopies will expand as eight Colorado cities, including Denver and Aurora, share $22 million from feds. September 15, 2023.

Denverite. How Denver is chipping away at the Inverted L: housing and trees edition. April 7, 2021.

Denverite. Here’s who will suffer most as temperatures rise in Denver. September 9, 2019.

Curbed. How trees can save us: They are the most effective, efficient, and immediate form of urban climate action—provided they’re planted where people need them most. July 10, 2019.

WNYC Studios, The Takeaway. Trees are an Immediate, Cost-Effective Solution to Battling Rising Temperatures. July 22, 2019.

AP News. Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion trees. July 4, 2019

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