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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
old growth trees indeed have a huge impact. whats unfortunate is a lot of the ones which were put up 100 years ago are starting to meet their end, due to age, more development, and increased disease/invasive species. and in a lot of cases they arent being replaced to the same degree. the block i grew up on probably didnt look all that different from yours, but nearly all of the big old trees have come down over the past 15 years, and its a completely different streetscape (to say nothing of how much warmer the houses are in the summer). theres a new one planted here and there, but the reality is that street will never look the same in my lifetime as it did when i was growing up.
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Were they Ash trees? Since 2002, 30,000,000 Ash tress have died from an Asian beetle. 17% of Chicago's tree population is Ash. That is around 85,000 trees that are at high risk.