Why Urban Trees Solve So Many of Our Problems

Sierra Official magazine of the Sierra Club   By Catherine Schuknecht   Photo by iStock/chrishowey   Trees cover an estimated 20.9 million acres of urban land in the continental United States. That’s 3,659 square feet of urban forest per city dweller—about the size of a not-so-modest four-bedroom house.  But like housing, trees are not equally … Read more