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50 photos showing the dangers of Detroit’s pervasive dead trees

By Steve Neavling on March 23, 2017   City Government, Headline, Lens On Detroit, Photo Gallery  

50 photos showing the dangers of Detroit’s pervasive dead trees

Tens of thousands of dead and dying trees in Detroit are in danger of falling on houses, cars, streets, power lines and garages.

Tens of thousands of dead trees wreak havoc in Detroit’s neighborhoods

By Steve Neavling on March 22, 2017   City Government, Featured, Featured Stories, Headline, Investigations, posts  

Tens of thousands of dead trees wreak havoc in Detroit’s neighborhoods

Dead trees played a major role in the largest breakout of fires in Detroit since at least 2010.

Video: Drone captures large urban farm project in Detroit

By Steve Neavling on May 17, 2014   Art & Entertainment, Featured Stories, Urban Renewal  

Video: Drone captures large urban farm project in Detroit

More than 1,000 volunteers helped plant oak trees on 20 acres of Detroit’s lower east side Saturday afternoon.

Photo essay: Explore blighted area to be turned into 140-acre forest in Detroit

By Steve Neavling on May 17, 2014   Abandoned Buildings, Art & Entertainment, Buildings, Lens On Detroit  

Photo essay: Explore blighted area to be turned into 140-acre forest in Detroit

The largely abandoned area is littered with trash, tires, furniture, rotting homes and discarded boats.

Project to transform 140 acres of blight into large urban farm finally underway

By Steve Neavling on February 5, 2014   Development, Headline, posts, Urban Renewal  

Project to transform 140 acres of blight into large urban farm finally underway

The plan is to plant 15,000 hardwood trees like maple and oak this spring over an area riddled with abandoned homes, dead trees and piles of garbage, tires and old furniture.

Steve Neavling

Steve Neavling lives and works in Detroit as an investigative journalist. His stories have uncovered corruption, led to arrests and reforms and prompted FBI investigations.

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