What Are Urban Trees Worth? Billions in Stored Carbon Emissions, Thousands to House Prices…

photo: Wonderlane / Creative Commons Lots of effort recently on quantifying the financial value of ecosystem services and here’s one more small piece of that: The US Forest Service has just completed an assessment of the dollar value that trees add to the urban environment and the results are pretty interesting. Surveying Chicago, Sacramento and Portland, here’s what trees are worth:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What Are Urban Trees Worth? Billions in Stored Carbon Emissions, Thousands to House Prices…

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