Urban Greening in North East LA

 

 

We’re helping to create a greener, cooler Northeast LA

 

Location: Multiple locations in Northeast Los Angeles

Timeline: Aug 2020 – Present

Funded By: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)

Project Partners: Cal State LA, City Plants, Legacy LA


This project will plant 3,500 large canopy trees mainly in the community of Boyle Heights, in east Los Angeles. Other neighborhoods included in this project will be El Sereno, Cypress Park, Highland Park, Echo Park, and Lincoln Heights. In addition, North East Trees will plant 2,000 trees at Ascot Hills Park, Cal State LA, Elysian Park, Ernest E. Debs Regional Park, and Flat Top.

Planting trees in these communities will will mitigate greenhouse gas and air pollution, reduce the urban heat island effect, increase shade to encourage more pedestrian use of streets, reduce air conditioning costs, reduce and filter rainwater runoff entering our drainage systems and rivers, increase public mental health and well being with exposure to nature, increase habitat for urban wildlife, and increase the likelihood of the public choosing to walk or bike to neighborhood destinations instead of driving, which reduces vehicular traffic and miles traveled, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and in general improve public mental and physical health.

This project will also hire, educate, and train at-promise youth from these communities and other local under-served and low-income communities in landscape planting. North East Trees will partner with Legacy LA, a non-profit organization with a mission to positively impact local youth by offering alternatives to gangs and violence, to conduct community-driven outreach, recruit youth for job training, and recruit community members to adopt and maintain trees.

  • 500 medium to large street trees for shade

  • 1,000 large trees in the yards of residential properties after contacting interested homeowners during community outreach

  • 2,000 large trees in and adjacent to the natural open spaces within Northeast Los Angeles, including parks owned by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and at the California State University, Los Angeles campus. 

  • Monitor and track the greenhouse gas sequestration of the planted trees through routine maintenance during the first three years after planting the trees, which will be location recorded using GPS and GIS mapping

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