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The Benefits of Trees
This page is being updated and reorganized.
To calculate the monetary value of the benefits of the street trees in your neighborhood, town or city, use I-Tree.   Click Swarthmore Street to see the results of using I-Tree on this Hamden street. 
NOTE:  This calculation is not the basis for the damages and penalties that could be recovered for unauthorized removal or pruning of trees and shrubs under CT law. 
Download below:
"Assessment of the Environmental Service Benefits of the City of New Haven’s Street Tree Population"
          by Suzanne Oversvee
Master's Project, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Spring 2007


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See also, the Baltimore Trust's efforts to plant trees to filter stormwater runoff. 
Big, old trees continue to grow and capture increasing amounts of carbon ( 1/15/2014 LA Times news report of a study reported in Nature.)
Excerpts from
"22 Benefits of Urban Street Trees"
By Dan Burden, Senior Urban Designer Glatting Jackson and Walkable Communities, Inc; May, 2006
"Out on a Limb:  The Future of Trees in Cities," by Chloe Medosch, Gizmodo, 3/09/15
         The benefits of street trees, listed in the chart below, are discussed with a focus on tall trees in "In Defense of Tall Trees" by Chris Donnelly, published in Connecticut Woodlands, Winter 2015, Vol. 79, No. 4, a publication of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association.   As the article states, tall trees provide many of these benefits to a greater extent than smaller stature trees. 
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Updated February 23, 2021