WaPo: "DC has 13,000 open spots for trees. Here's how you can fill them."

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D.C. has 13,000 open spots for trees. Here’s how you can fill them.

By Perry Stein April 20 at 2:59 PM

In Ward 1, there are 162 empty tree boxes designed to have a tree planted in them. In Ward 5, that number skyrockets to 3,728 empty tree boxes.

These numbers come from the District Department of Transportation’s Urban Forestry Administration, which is responsible for maintaining and increasing the number of trees in the city’s public spaces.

District resident Emanuel Feld, 23, culled through this city data to create an interactive map in which residents can see where the city has vacant tree boxes and lodge a request with the city to plant some. The site,GetDCTrees.org, launched Wednesday and Feld hopes it results in a more equal distribution of trees throughout the District.

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