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    Urban Tree Canopy in the Nation's Capital

    Metadata Updated: January 14, 2026

    This is the story of tree cover in Washington, DC from the role of trees since the earliest planning, through current measures taken to ensure a green legacy for all that follow. 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 to learn more.

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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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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 14, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 14, 2026
    Publisher District Department of Transportation
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=0336fad670cb42ba8b894d57a827ecc3
    Data First Published 2015-03-05T19:16:52.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2022-12-09T00:00:00.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 42a745c6-6368-4ab4-b368-213411c96e4b
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/apps/DCGIS::urban-tree-canopy-in-the-nations-capital
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1759,38.7870,-76.8933,39.0010
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ecb5f6eb1d59793c0ad7ba9ced11c8e70c61726257324d28b6de4324217aa134
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1759, 38.7870, -77.1759, 39.0010, -76.8933, 39.0010, -76.8933, 38.7870, -77.1759, 38.7870}

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