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Benefits of Trees
Benefits of Trees
Choosing the Right Tree
Managing Tree Hazards and Risk
Plant Health Care
Planting a Tree
Pruning Your Trees
The benefits of trees extend far beyond the beauty they bring to the landscape. Tree give off oxygen,
Tree Owner’s Manual reduce the amount of stormwater runoff, provide protection, and offer many other social environmental,
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Social Benefits
Trees provide beauty and help people feel serene,
peaceful, restful, and tranquil. They significantly
reduce workplace stress and fatigue while also
decreasing the recovery time following medical
procedures. Green spaces can also help lower the
amount of criminal activity in a community.
Communal Benefits
Trees found in urban environments often serve
architectural and engineering functions by providing
privacy, emphasizing views or obstructing
objectionable views. With proper selection and
maintenance, even trees on private property can
provide benefits to the community. Trees provide
privacy, accentuate views, reduce noise and glare, and
even enhance architecture. Trees also bring natural
elements and wildlife habitats into urban
surroundings, all of which increase the quality of life
for residents in the community.
Environmental Benefits
Trees alter our environment by using their leaves to filter the air we breathe by removing dust and other
particles. Deciduous shade trees cool homes in the summer and allow the winter sun to heat homes when
they lose their leaves. Trees can serve as a windbreak. The more compact the foliage on the group of trees
the more effective the windbreak.
Economic Benefits
While many people understand the benefits of trees,
very few realize trees have a dollar value that can be
measured. Tree appraisal is a process that may help
you find out what your trees and plants are worth.
An arborist can help a homeowner determine the
value of trees by providing an appraisal. If your trees
or shrubs are damaged or destroyed, you may be able
to recapture your loss through an insurance claim or
as a deduction from your federal income tax.
Learn more about the value of trees
Maximizing the Benefits of Trees
Maximizing a tree’s benefits requires routine maintenance. A professional in the tree, nursery or landscape
industry, or a landscape architect can help you plan, install, and care for all of your trees and plants so that
each of them will be worth more. While some homeowners may want to remove a tree, the cost
associated with tree removal and planting a young tree can outweigh the cost of regular tree maintenance
practices such as tree inspection, pruning, and mulching.
Learn more about mature tree care
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