DETROIT — Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit's eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the city but giant sequoias, the world's largest trees that ...

There were plenty of Earth Day events in and around Detroit to mark the date. In one instance, clones of 3,000-year-old sequoia trees were planted in Detroit on vacant lots that were full of blight.