Benefits of Planting Trees

Most often we plant trees to provide shade and beautify our landscapes. These are great benefits of Planting Trees but trees also provide other less obvious benefits.

Social Benefits of Planting Trees

• Trees improve life quality. It has been demonstrated that spending time among trees and verdant spaces reduces the amount of daily tension we experience.
• It has been demonstrated that hospital patients recuperate from surgery faster when their hospital room has a view of trees.
• It has been demonstrated that children retain more of the information taught in classrooms if they spend time outdoors in natural spaces.
  
• Frequently, trees are planted as living memorials or remembrances of loved ones or to commemorate significant life events.

Communal Benefits of Planting Trees

• Even if you own the trees on your property, your neighbors may also enjoy their benefits.
• Trees can be an asset to the entire community if they are strategically planned.
• Tree-lined streets have a traffic-calming effect, resulting in slower, safer traffic flow.
• Highways can be obscured from unwelcome views or commotion by strategically planting trees.
• Trees can enhance the design or architecture of structures or entire neighborhoods.

Environmental Benefits of Planting Trees

• Trees provide numerous environmental advantages.
• Through evaporative cooling and reducing the quantity of sunlight that reaches parking lots and buildings, trees reduce the urban heat island effect. This is particularly true in areas with extensive impervious surfaces, such as parking grounds and industrial facilities.
• Trees enhance the purity of the air we breathe by filtering out hazardous dust and pollutants such as ozone, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide.
• Trees emit the oxygen we require to breathe.
• Trees reduce the quantity of storm water discharge, thereby reducing erosion and pollution in our waterways and possibly mitigating the effects of inundation.
• Many fauna species rely on forests for habitat. Numerous animals and mammals find sustenance, shelter, and protection in trees.

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Economic Benefits

• By shadowing the south and west sides of your home during the summer, strategically located trees can lower your cooling expenses. Utilizing deciduous trees will allow the sun to warm your residence during the winter months.
• As a windbreak, evergreen trees on the north side of your home and vegetation around the foundation can reduce the chilling effects of winter winds.
• The value of a landscaped home with mature, thriving trees can be up to 10 percent higher than the value of a comparable home with no or minimal landscaping. (Tree topping will decrease their value.)
• Indirect economic benefits of trees include the fact that if we use less energy, utility companies will have less demand on their infrastructure, resulting in lower operational costs that can be passed on to consumers.