Hi neighbor, my name is Downy Hawthorne
aka Crataegus mollis
Migrating birds use us for shelter, nesting, and food.
On average, each year since 2010, Chicago has 200 fewer trees in each of our 50 wards.
Did you know?
“Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy, and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come. Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.”
— Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peach Prize lecture - December 10, 2004