Tree roots enhance water infiltration: One more way that trees bring balance to urban environments

摘要

Investment in landscape trees pays - through improved air quality, reduced greenhouse gasses, lower air conditioning bills, increased property values, feelings of well-being, and more. Water, however, may be the most significant global environmental crisis coming our way in the future - and trees play a pivotal role there as well. As one storm-water engineer put it to me recently, "when it comes to storm-water management, forests rock!"