EP Urban Forest Hosts Tree Talk on Weaver Library Lawn

What is an Urban Forest?*
Do you love trees?
--Want to learn how trees protect EP from climate change?
--Want to learn how trees keep us healthy?
--Want to meet like-minded neighbors to sustain and enhance EP’s trees for future generations?

Please join EP Urban Forest, Wednesday, September 16 at 5:30pm for our first socially-distant Tree Talk on the Weaver Library lawn. Molly Henry, the Climate and Health Fellow at American Forests; Lou Allard, the Urban and Community Forestry Program Coordinator at the RI Department of Environmental Management; Rachel Calabro, Climate Change Program Manager at the RI Department of Health, and Cassie Tharinger, Director of the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program, will explain how trees protect us from climate change and keep us healthy.

Let’s talk about how we can protect our Urban Forest together. Please bring your own chair and wear a mask.

Contact: Ryan McCauley, rmccauley@eplib.org 

RSVP: epurbanforest@gmail.com 
*Answer: An urban forest is all the trees, vegetation and ecosystems in a city.