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Portland on List of Cities With Tree Canopy Inequity Published: 28 June 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – American Forests, the nation’s oldest national conservation organization, last week released its first nationwide tally of Tree Equity Scores (TES), which document that Black and low-income neighborhood have significantly fewer trees than wealthier, whiter communities, even in the same cities.
The findings confirm a disturbing pattern of inequitable distribution of trees that has deprived communities of the health and other benefits that sufficient tree cover delivers. In fact, neighborhoods where there are mostly of people of color have 33% less tree canopy than majority-white communities. Neighborhoods, where 90% or more of residents live in poverty have 41% less tree canopy than communities with only 10% or less of the population in poverty.
Lee was among the elite, working for the Forest Service for more than two decades as a wildland firefighter.
Now in the private sector, he s worried many like him are following his lead, walking away due to low wages and a lack of benefits.
Starting pay for a hotshot team member is $13.45 an hour. And now the Forest Service is competing with unemployment, because you make more on unemployment than you would as an entry-level firefighter, Lee said.
The federal firefighters are often working side-by-side with crews from Cal Fire and other agencies who often make double what they do.
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