Charlotte Trees

Charlotte receives a $1.1 million grant to preserve trees in the city’s Corridors of Opportunity.

As Charlotte bakes under heatwaves this summer, the city's trees are helping to take the edge off by shading homes, streets and parks. But the benefits of these natural air-conditioners are spread unevenly throughout the city. Shade is hardest to find in some of Charlotte’s low-income neighborhoods. And it’s often a challenge for residents to maintain the trees they do have.

The city of Charlotte is training residents to help catalog the city’s tree canopy through a virtual, citywide tree map. More than 185,000 trees have been entered so far.

Charlotte has had a longstanding goal of building up Charlotte’s tree canopy coverage to 50% by 2050. The city’s most recent analysis of its tree canopy found that Charlotte is losing an average of three football fields a day worth of trees.

Wrapping trees with plastic and sticky cankerworm-catching goop has been a Charlotte holiday tradition. It might be dying, however, alongside the pesky worms.

For the first time in history, the guardians of the Charlotte tree canopy are both women. It comes at an important time for Charlotte, when the city estimates it needs to plant 28,000 trees to meet its goal for equitable tree cover.

A new study says Charlotte’s tree canopy declined significantly between 2012 and 2018, with residential development the biggest cause of widespread tree…

Charlotte's rapid development in the past 20 years has threatened the city’s tree canopy, with at least 400 total acres lost since 2012. Among those lost…

Charlotte has updated its rules for how developers can plant trees in the city’s most urban areas.City Council voted nine to two Monday night to adopt the…

Charlotte City Council members will decide Monday night whether to change rules for how developers can place trees in the city’s most urban areas. City…