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Benefits of trees
There are many lists of urban tree benefits available on the internet.
An excellent source of information on the benefits of trees http://www.coloradotrees.org/benefits.htm
Another summary comes from Walkable Communities:
22 Benefits of Urban Street Trees by Dan Burden.
The USDA Forest Service's Center for Urban Forest Research, has been measuring the direct economic benefits of urban forests. Follow this link to a list of their publications on this subject.
You can use the free i-Tree software to estimate the net value of services provided by your urban forest. Tree inventory or sample survey data is required. i-Tree has been developed by USDA Forest Service researchers in cooperation with other professional organizations.