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All About the Newly Announced Up With Trees 20-Year Master Plan

Aired on Thursday, December 1st.

On this edition of ST, we welcome back to our show Steve Grantham, the executive director of Up With Trees, which is a popular nonprofit that's been active in Tulsa since 1976. As noted at the Up With Trees website: "In the last four decades, we have planted over 30,000 trees at more than 500 sites throughout Tulsa. We plant along streets and trails, and in parks, schools, fire stations, neighborhoods, and many other public properties." Grantham joins us to discuss the newly announced Up With Trees 20-Year Master Plan, which calls for the planting of some 300,000 trees in Tulsa. This would increase the City of Tulsa's "canopy coverage" to about 30 percent of its total area; that figure now stands at 26 percent. Grantham also tells us about how the city's 5.2 million trees benefit the local economy, the climate, and the overall quality of life in Tulsa in several different ways.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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