Jintak Han, The Denver Post
Roofs of a suburban residential area sprawl across Lakewood on Friday, July 8, 2022. The city is planning to plant more trees. 
Getting your player ready...
Lakewood boasts 625,000 mature trees for its approximately 160,000 residents. But along the sun-splashed and parched Front Range, where increased urbanization threatens to boost temperatures even faster, it may not be enough for Colorado's fifth-largest city.
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