Major windstorms test the D.C. area's fondness for mature trees.

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Since the days of Thomas Jefferson, who personally supervised the planting of Lombardy poplars along Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington has been known as the City of Trees. Arlington County and Alexandria proudly maintain lists of historic trees and have neighborhoods carefully built around remnants of native forests. In parts of Prince George's County, some trees are so old that longtime residents can't imagine their neighborhoods without them. . .

"The D.C. area has the third-densest tree canopy of any urban region in the country,"

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