NO QUICK FIX FOR REPLACING THE BENEFITS OF MATURE TREES

摘要

New York (November 20, 2012) — As the East Coast tallies the cost of lost trees and looks to replant, there's no quick fix for losing the benefits that mature trees provide a city. Not all street trees are created equal, and mature trees are infinitely more valuable than young ones. It takes years for newly planted trees to produce the kinds of economic and environmental benefits of older trees. What's lost when older trees go down.