For eight weeks this summer, a group of Clarkies focused on two things: People and trees. 🌳

Which trees survive? How big are they growing? Are residents happy with the added shade of recently planted trees, or worried about falling limbs?

These questions and more steered the 2024 cohort of the @clarku_heroprogram, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

Throughout June and July, fellows Quinn Chang Martin ’26, Aria Cranford ’26, Espi Garschina-Bobrow ’25, Juju Kaiser ’26, Jack Keane ’25, Mara Litten ’26, and Kalon Shepard ’25 canvassed neighborhoods in Massachusetts’ Gateway Cities to study trees planted by @massdcr during the last decade.

🔗 See link in bio to learn more about the team’s work.