Sunday, March 25, 2007

Trees

Temperature reduction and other microclimatic effects

Removal of air pollutants

Emission of volatile organic compounds and tree maintenance emissions

Energy effects on buildings

(http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/syracuse/TREE%20Air%20Qual.pdf)

These are some of the importance of trees in our environment. Trees also slow down runoff by holding or absorbing water, provide shelter for people, animals, and other plants, it also reduces the devastating effects of flooding, provides nutrients and shelter for a variety of organisms while decomposing, protects the world’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide (too much contributes to the Greenhouse effect), and provide certain habitats with the stable conditions necessary for life, and offer us beautiful scenery
(http://thegreencommunity.org/importance_trees.html)

So why cut trees? We should save them instead and plant more trees. Wouldn’t it be nice if we have more trees to be able to have clean and fresh air? Let’s start saving trees its for our own good and the animals who needs the trees.

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