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Conserve
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wants to protect.
It estimates that tree canopy in the Washington metropolitan area alone has decreased by almost 70 percent in the past 30 years. Trees play a critical ecological role, taking in C02 and releasing oxygen, enhancing water quality and providing shade to help cool temperatures.
The map shows large swaths of forest ^cross the state that the conservancy plans to protect.
Phemister declined to guess how many acres the graphic depicted.
But Schuyler said the organization targets areas for protection of at least 15,000 acres because they are of “sufficient size to provide functional habitat for a wide variety of species.”
Much must be done to protect those “blobs,” Phemister and Schuyler said.
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