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It is crucial that the City of Chicago works to keep healthy trees safe and in the ground for future generations. The decisions we make today impact our world for generations to come. In Chicago, millions live together in an urban area that was once a patchwork of wetlands, oak woodlands, and prairie. While we strive to plan for a future for us all, we must learn to see our trees as critical infrastructure, just as roads, electrical lines, or street lights are deemed critical. Like other types of infrastructure, there are costs to planting and maintaining trees, but unlike other infrastructure, trees increase in value exponentially as they mature. Trees in Chicago proved over $12 million in annual environmental and economic services to our residents. The benefits of trees are numerous. In our environment they offset carbon emissions, remove air pollutants, prevent soil erosion, increase water retention, mitigate flooding, and provide habitat for wildlife. For people, just being around trees improves our physical and mental health and reduces crime rates. Trees near homes lower energy bills, soften noise pollution, and reduce private and public damage caused by flooding. These benefits increase as trees live longer and mature, and their lifespans can last on levels of centuries. While planting is necessary, preserving our ancient trees already in the ground is essential for the health of our urban forest canopy. When making decisions around our public trees, we must consider the health and well being of future generations. To keep us safe it is important to have certified experts making decisions around tree care and removal. Write to your alderperson and your mayor today to encourage them to prioritize maintaining a healthy urban forest canopy and defer to experts when making tree management and removal decisions. |
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It is crucial that the City of Chicago works to keep healthy trees safe and in the ground for future generations.
The decisions we make today impact our world for generations to come. In Chicago, millions live together in an urban area that was once a patchwork of wetlands, oak woodlands, and prairie. While we strive to plan for a future for us all, we must learn to see our trees as critical infrastructure, just as roads, electrical lines, or street lights are deemed critical. Like other types of infrastructure, there are costs to planting and maintaining trees, but unlike other infrastructure, trees increase in value exponentially as they mature. Trees in Chicago proved over $12 million in annual environmental and economic services to our residents.
The benefits of trees are numerous. In our environment they offset carbon emissions, remove air pollutants, prevent soil erosion, increase water retention, mitigate flooding, and provide habitat for wildlife. For people, just being around trees improves our physical and mental health and reduces crime rates. Trees near homes lower energy bills, soften noise pollution, and reduce private and public damage caused by flooding. These benefits increase as trees live longer and mature, and their lifespans can last on levels of centuries. While planting is necessary, preserving our ancient trees already in the ground is essential for the health of our urban forest canopy.
When making decisions around our public trees, we must consider the health and well being of future generations. To keep us safe it is important to have certified experts making decisions around tree care and removal. Write to your alderperson and your mayor today to encourage them to prioritize maintaining a healthy urban forest canopy and defer to experts when making tree management and removal decisions.
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This advocacy alert is only open to residents of Chicago, but you can still speak up for the environment in many ways! Please share about this ordinance above, or visit Openlands.org/Advocacy to view our other active campaigns.
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