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Trees: A Capital Investment - Cheryl Kollin
Published: 1/9/2005
2004 Southeast Watershed Roundtable Presentaion Click here for full agenda
An urban forest is like the principal of an investment—a city’s natural capital. When the principal is large enough, it provides interest in the form of environmental benefits, among them, slowing stormwater and recharging groundwater, filtering pollutants before they enter waterways, cleaning air, and cooling communities. American Forests offers tools to communities to calculate the economic values of a city’s green infrastructure. This presentation will show how cities in the southeastern U.S. have used their green infrastructure to improve stormwater management.
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