Learn all about the Virginia pine tree and why it’s become one of the top choices for a southern Christmas tree!
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Trees are often key elements in projects that restore degraded or developed land to dynamic green space. Initiatives that remove pavement and revitalize polluted ground create opportunities to plant trees for long-term environmental benefits. In Nashville, which is naturally a wooded place, planting trees throughout our neighborhoods and caring for them is essential to managing the built environment.
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Tennessee's wetlands are under attack by deregulation and urban sprawl, which have regional effects as local ecosystems are degraded. Current state-level deregulation regarding best wetland management practices may encourage dangerous levels of unmonitored development that threaten the environmental health and livability of both rural and urban areas across Tennessee. Flooding, excess heat, and loss of wildlife are a few of the hazards that opportunistic development creates.
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