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LA gets its very first tree czar

Los Angeles has more than 10 million trees , and 2 million of those are maintained by the public. Certified botanist Rachel Malarich is now LA's first ever City Forest Officer.

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By Steve Chiotakis • Aug 22, 2019 • 1 min read

Los Angeles has more than 10 million trees, and 2 million of those are maintained by the public. Certified botanist Rachel Malarich is now LA's first ever City Forest Officer. She's tasked with taking an inventory of the city's trees, overseeing the planting of 90,000 trees by 2021, and increasing canopy cover in low-income neighborhoods.

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