Tend the Trees. They’re Crucial to You and Climate Change
4 key ways to protect and restore forests.
What’s your current relationship with trees? Do you:
> take walks in the woods and feel refreshed?
> prune the trees in your yard to keep them healthy?
> cut or buy logs for winter fires?
> bring a tree inside and decorate it for Christmas?
> surreptitiously hug trees?
These are all wonderful ways to interact with trees. However, these majestic plants are much more integral to our lives than we typically recognize in our daily lives. Yes, they provide us with materials, like lumber and paper. But more than that, they are a source of life. We cannot live without the oxygen and rain they help produce, nor can we keep the temperature on Earth to a habitable level without them. Forests help “stabilize the climate. They regulate ecosystems, protect biodiversity, play an integral part in the carbon cycle, support livelihoods, and can help drive sustainable growth.”
