You can still plant a TREE! - Help Improve Our Neighborhood and Millers Creek. The City of Ann Arbor is supplying coupons in 2006. For information, contact City Forester Kay Sicheneder at 996-3081, or consult http://www.a2gov.org/trees/a2govorgtrees.html.
It's fun to watch it grow.
Help to moderate summer temperatures (A large tree cools the air as much as would six room-sized air conditioners).
Increase the value of your property (Six to 15% according to many real estate studies).
Trees protect Millers Creek by taking up stormwater.
Trees provide food and shelter for a variety of birds and other animals.
Trees are needed now more than ever. - We have lost so many trees to insects (the emerald ash borer), diseases (Dutch elm disease), and development.
A recent study of Millers Creek found that stormwater that flows
directly to the creek is a major problem. Trees help to keep stormwater
out of the creek. Tree roots carry water to the leaves, where some of it
is released to the atmosphere as vapor, part of the process called
transpiration. While the amount of water varies, some adult trees
transpire thousands of gallons per day. When the trees take up water,
there is less of it to wash pollutants into the street drains and the
creek.
Sponsored by MTRI
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