Trees Please! Celebrate Virginia Native Trees!
We need the trees of Virginia.
Trees are an important part of our diverse ecosystems.
Trees provide essential habitats for pollinators - especially butterflies and moths, birds and mammals.
Leaves, flowers and fruits, nuts or acorns provide seasonable nutrition. Leaf litter, fallen branches and/or decaying wood provide other habitats while enriching the soil with nutrients.
Trees stabilize the soil and absorb thousands of gallons of water, preventing rapid run-off during storms.
The shade of trees reduces the cost of air conditioning in summer, and helps screen the wind and cold of winter.
Trees play a significant role in maintaining the balance in the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle.
Trees improve air quality.
Virginia’s native trees are diverse, colorful, beautiful, majestic, sheltering, calming, and so much more. Trees improve the quality of our lives.
We need trees. All we need to do is plant and care for them. They will do the rest.
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What is the true value of a tree?
It may be priceless in the beauty it brings to a street, city park or backyard, but can an actual dollar amount be placed on a tree’s worth?
The USDA Forest Service scientists found that for every $1 spent on planting and caring for a tree, the benefits that it provides are two to five times that investment.
Check out the free on-line tools on i-Tree that quantify ecosystem services and benefit values of community trees and forests at multiple scales.
Download the new Celebrate Virginia Native Trees (and shrubs!) brochure and share everywhere!
