A Tree Planting Strategy

Paper Summary:

The paper focuses on developing a tree planting strategy in order to retrofit a suburban neighborhood so that it has less detrimental environmental impact and greater resource efficiency. The paper details the many benefits of a tree planting program and looks at the technical challenges involved. The paper discusses the types of trees that could be planted as well as various layout options.

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Background
Technical Challenges
Performance Criteria

From the Paper:

"The task is to retrofit a suburban neighborhood so that it has less detrimental environmental impact, greater resource efficiency, more opportunities for healthy living, and a sense of aesthetic splendor and improved lifestyle. The neighborhood consists of approximately 200 acres with wide streets, houses set back from the street and fronted by large garages, very low residential density, significant paving of the landscape, and no other land uses within a ten minute walk. Such a neighborhood would be considered relatively isolated but might also have a detrimental effect on the local environment because of the paving that removes natural land and that reflects heat from the sun, as might the houses themselves. The low residential density is a benefit. One way of improving the region is to develop a tree planting strategy for the area so as to make the neighborhood itself more given to renewal of the atmosphere."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Environmental Projects." 2006. January 31, 2006. http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/neighborhoods/nmf/booklets/Environmental%20help%20yourself%20word.pdf.
• "Strategic Tree Planting as an EPA Encouraged Pollutant Reduction Strategy: How Urban Trees can Obtain Credit in State Implementation Plans." Urban Forestry South Expo (2006). January 31, 2007. http://www.urbanforestrysouth.org/Resources/Library/TTResource.2005-06-22.2651.
• "Trees." Local Government Commission (2004). January 31, 2007. http://www.lgc.org/environment/trees.html.

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