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    Our Diverse Canopy

    Metadata Updated: December 3, 2025

    The District of Columbia is home to a very diverse tree canopy, but it is not self-sustaining.  In order to promote overall canopy health, ensure tree diversity, and match each new planting to a suitable planting site, the city's Urban Forestry Administration chooses the best available tree from a selection of 130 species and cultivars. The following presentation will introduce readers to the trees that make the District of Columbia's canopy unique.Washington, DC stands apart from most other US cities when it comes to trees. Trees were considered so essential that they were included as an integral part of Pierre L'Enfant's original design. The L'Enfant Plan, drafted in 1791, reserved space in the public right-of-way exclusively for trees and DC remains the "City of Trees." Visit trees.dc.gov for more on DC's tree canopy.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date December 3, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date December 3, 2025
    Publisher District Department of Transportation
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2014-09-09T15:06:46.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2019-07-02T00:00:00.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
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    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/apps/DCGIS::our-diverse-canopy
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
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