Mayor Fisher, like the legendary Johnny Appleseed is credited with giving tree seeds and saplings and authorizing tree plantings in many city parks. This article highlights some qualities that should bring the value of our urban landscape into sharper focus. The aesthetic value that is clearly evident. Their colors, shapes, sounds, and textures of trees are experienced by most of us every day. However, trees have a more tangible value too.
Trees have life-giving value.
They take impurities out of our air and replace with clean air. Research has shown that a tree-lined street may have up to one hundred times fewer pollutants in the air than a street without trees. Trees provide shelter for people and countless other creatures, giving us the opportunity to observe wild life anatural habitat in our own back yard. Wildlife is important to people. Trees save energy.