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Las Vegas council adopts Urban Forestry Management Plan aiming for 60,000 trees over 25 years
Summary
City staff presented an inventory-based urban forestry and heat mitigation plan using a 2024 smart-tree scan; council approved a strategy that targets 60,000 additional trees over the next 25 years, prioritizes drought-tolerant native species and calls for code updates and outreach.
The Las Vegas City Council on Dec. 17 adopted an Urban Forestry Management Plan designed to mitigate urban heat, increase canopy and guide future planting and maintenance. City staff presented a 2024 inventory created with a “smart tree” scan (street imagery/LiDAR) that mapped municipal trees and produced a digital inventory of roughly 40,000 city-managed trees.
Brad Dossler, the city’s urban forester, said the scan and inventory showed…
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