North East Trees is a unique environmental organization that trains and hires at-risk youth while designing and building parks, creating storm water solutions, installing drought tolerant landscaping in public spaces and at publicly-owned housing facilities. Founded by landscape architect and retired school teacher F. Scott WIlson, NET "connects the dots" to work towards solving multiple problems found in low-income, high-density park-poor areas of Southern California (disconnect from nature, poor air quality, polluted storm run off, lack of job skills and opportunities, community stewardship and involvement). With approximately 90,000 trees in the ground, and still planting, NET is one of the major forces behind bringing back the Los Angeles River from a flood channel to a valued resource - designing and building a chain of pocket parks and thousands of trees lining its banks from Burbank to Downtown Los Angeles, and working on storm water solutions to improve water quality in the river and along our coastline.
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