Trees contribute to the campus experience in many other ways.
They provide summer shade, fruit and flower display, foliage shade and shadow and many environmental benefits. In addition, they add value to the campus experience educationally, aesthetically and environmentally and enhance our sense of connection with the past. The urban forest must therefore be managed in a way that preserves the existing forest. Many areas of the existing forest have been designated as future building sites and many of those designated sites contain very old and large trees. In order to protect the existing forest to the maximum extent feasible, a policy is needed to guide protection of them on those future building sites while allowing necessary campus development.