As Climate Change ensures more severe weather, we must halt unnecessary destruction of healthy trees and adding impervious surface. In 2018, the County confirmed impervious surface was increasing at the rate of 9 acres per year. The County has not offered more recent data on impervious surface, and the County refuses to update tree canopy data; despite spending nearly $400,000 to update a master plan of urban forest and natural resources, the County rebuffs requests for updated canopy data. Given trends, the county could become one huge heat island!

Climate change makes the campaign to save trees URGENT.  This is no time for business as usual or, to quote a Board member, see ATAG’s call for declaring a climate emergency as merely “a rhetorical device.”

There are actions you can take as an individual or together with your neighbors, civic associations, church and other social organizations. Please take a few minutes to review actions ATAG has taken and continues to take and ways your voice can be heard! Together we can make a difference!