By james art 
The personal love of trees can never be registered as an overestimation.
As a boy, when life turned out to be disturbing in our overcrowded home in Winslow, Camden County, the nearby forests offered peace.
The trees became part of the family on Earth, which included streams, lakes, wind and wildlife. In the dead of the winter, small beds of pine needles absorb sunlight and heat on forest floors, creating a kind of natural heating blanket.
One can stay warm and drown in incredible comfort by finding the perfect sunlight patch boiling under a shed of trees.
On the contrary, the trees deliver coolness to control the climate during the summer days. A tree on the city streets can reduce temperatures by more than AS25 degrees. This discovery happened last summer when employees of the recreation department, natural resources and culture trimmed trees on a 100 block street of Franklin St. St. St.
A nearby tree received a pruning before a worker realized the better option involving removal. The tree has provided a shade and induces more cool temperatures in several homes and sidewalks. Well, things got hot. The veranda temperatures jumped into my residence and living room, which offered cool conditions, need a fan to compensate for the porch heat.
“Urban trees are useful for humans and wildlife. They keep us healthy and make us happy. “
This announcement preceded an article from July 2024 by Ellen Montgomery, director of the public land campaign for the Center for Research and Environment Policy in America.
“Cities tend to have higher temperatures, more greenhouse gas emissions, higher air quality and more noise pollution from rural and wild areas. Planting trees in parks, along with sidewalks, in corporate campuses or in private yards, can help deal with these problems, “Montgomery wrote.
“Urban areas that lack trees often have less shade and evaporation, which can lead to heating islands. Trees can create a more ordinary and pleasant local climate with more moisture, cool temperatures and buffered wind. This will be increasingly important as extreme heat becomes more common due to climate change. “
Environment America notes that urban trees have many advantages, including:
• Reduction of heat: Trees can reduce surface temperatures by up to 40%. This can help reduce diseases and deaths associated with heat.
• Reducing floods: Trees can absorb and filter rainwater.
• Improving air quality: Trees absorb harmful gases such as ozone and nitrogen dioxide.
• Reducing noise contamination: Trees can reduce noise pollution by up to 50%.
• Carbon storage: Trees absorb carbon dioxide and store it in their biomass.
• Provision of oxygen: Acre trees produces enough oxygen for 18 people every day.
Improving health and well -being: Studies are related trees and time spent in nature with the benefits of physical and mental health. Creating jobs: city forestry programs create jobs for urban foresters, arbors, trimmers for trees and more.
Urban trees can also help: promote outdoor recreation; Mitigation of rainwater outflow; Reducing the use of energy and emissions of power plants; Cool waterways.
La Parker is a Trenton colonist. Find it on Twitter @Laparker6 or send him an email to Laparker@trentonian.com.