Posted on September 10, 2019September 11, 2019Will Black Oaks Survive Climate Change in the Midwest? Black oaks may face many threats from climate change in the coming years. Photo: Willow, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5) The survival of some species of oaks, among them black oak, have been threatened as forested areas in North America …
Posted on September 10, 2019September 11, 2019Cost-Benefit Approach to Urban Forests: A Western Analysis Urban tree programs have expenses for planting, maintenance, even sidewalk repair. Yet the benefits of urban trees in five western cities analyzed outweighed the costs by ratios of 1.37 to 3.09. For the analysis, samples of 30 to 70 randomly …