Indiana Forest Alliance creates strategy for protecting, maintaining Indianapolis’s trees | WVPE

The Indiana Forest Alliance has come up with a strategy for how to better protect urban forests in Indianapolis.

Paula Brooks is the environmental justice coordinator for the Hoosier Environmental Council.

“If a branch falls, if it blocks the sidewalk or the street — the city will come and remove it.

Rae Schnapp is the conservation director for the Indiana Forest Alliance.

“If the property is not changing hands, and/or no development is proposed, then those trees are vulnerable.

Some Indiana lawmakers tried and failed to pass a bill this year to create a statewide carbon credit market.

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