we were trying to do something that was going to make an impact and um so we came up with you know thousand trees

It was part of the nextg trees initiative an ambitious effort to plant 1,000 trees in Idina paid for with American Rescue plan act funds

we looked at um some sustainability layers to look at our existing tree canopy um where there are maybe some deficiencies we got some information from hanapin County about where our heat islands are in Edina so if we plant trees in those Heat Islands um it'll help combat that

ultimately you do have this final map product that makes that data easy to understand for residents or whoever is interested

just with climate change i' I've been switching and planting a lot of climate adaptable species Minnesota's Winters have warmed so much that trees that couldn't survive in the past are now thriving