Urban ForestryLindsay Darling
2020 The Garden Club of America Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry
Origins of Midwestern Urban Canopy
Lindsay Darling is a PhD student in forestry and natural resources at Purdue University. Her project will explore the origins of tree canopy in the midwestern United States. In this area, forests and prairie mixed before Euro-American settlement. This project will track how forest canopy has changed over the last 200 years and compare this development to socio-economic trends. Currently, tree canopy tends to be higher in wealthier communities. This project will determine if wealthy people tended to move to areas with more trees or if trees were planted after their arrival.
The Garden Club of America Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry
To advance the field of urban forestry by encouraging students to study the planning, management, horticulture and ecology of urban forests, and the effect of healthy urban forests on people and the environment.
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