DETROIT (AP) — Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit's eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the city but giant sequoias, the world's largest ...

Andrew “Birch” Kemp helps clear debris from a Arboretum Detroit planting site in Detroit, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) David McGuffie dumps mulch on a sequoia tree seedling ...

DETROIT (AP) — Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit's eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the city but giant sequoias, the world's largest ...

DETROIT — Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit’s eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the city but giant sequoias, the world’s largest ...

In the 1950s, 1.8 million people called Detroit home, but the city's population has since shrunk to about one-third of that number. Tens of thousands of homes were left empty and neglected.

A sequoia forest in Detroit? Plantings to improve air quality and mark Earth Day by: COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press. Posted: Apr 22, 2025 / 03:20 PM CDT. Updated: Apr 22, 2025 / 03:25 PM CDT.