The city enjoys urban forests not only in the city square, the municipal parks, and golf courses, but also along many streets in the city. The forest, boasting almost 700,000 trees, was planted during the late 17th century, but since the 1920s, planting h

The reading passage argues that an urban forest plan is needed and it has to incorporate legislation, double support and public information campaign. However, the lecturer states that those idea did not show to be successful in the past. In fact, they were destined to fail. To begin with, the article asserts that human development which could harm mature trees should be limited through legislation. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that laws are always too complicated to be understood by the public. In addition, she mentions that people do not abide by the laws sometimes because the law by itself is not a sufficient deterrence. Moreover, the article holds that support for urban forests should be increased two folds by securing funds both from private and public sources, including raising city taxes to cover those expenses. Nevertheless, the speaker in the lecture contends that private funding is not guaranteed as in the past it only accounted for 20% of the plan budget and public funding was 80%. More importantly, using taxpayers money is not recommended as people should help voluntarily. Finally, the author assumes that educating the public about the benefits of trees and urban forests will encourage people to act. In Contrast, the lecturer indicates that most campaigns focus on vague goals with ambiguous information that is not directly beneficial for the individual. she proposes that campaigns should elaborate on how executing this plan would help the community to have better golf courses and cleaner parks