LINCOLN, Neb., October 8, 2021 /3BL Media/ - Homes with trees planted in their yard are worth more — a lot more — than properties without any tree cover, according to a new university study.

The report, conducted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Bureau of Business Research and sponsored by the international nonprofit Arbor Day Foundation, found that the collective value trees add to private home properties amounts to more than $31.5 billion annually nationwide.

“Trees do so many great things for our neighborhoods and homes — from lowering neighborhood temperatures, to fostering wildlife habitat, to even lowering crime rates where we live,” said Dan Lambe, president of the Arbor Day Foundation, which sponsored the study. “Now we have the science available for us to really dig in and understand from an economic standpoint how impactful trees are for our neighborhoods and communities.”

该研究由Arbor Day基金会和USDA森林服务局赞助，试图量化每个州和全国各州城市林业部门的经济足迹。此外，它报告了树木提供的“生活质量”的好处，包括使用美国人口普查局数据对树木覆盖对房屋价值的影响。它还报告了社会的外部利益，这些树木通过碳固换，减少空气污染和消除洪水来为社区提供社区。使用美国农业部森林服务公司（USDA Forest Service）的I-Tree景观网络应用程序的数据，发现邻里树每年为社会提供价值超过730亿美元的环境福利。

“Planting and maintaining trees is one of those expenditures that provides both returns to the investor and benefits to all of us,” said Eric Thompson, director of the Bureau of Business Research.

At the state level, urban trees had the largest annual impact on quality of life in Texas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Mississippi. Other states ranked in the top 10 included Alabama, Pennsylvania, California, Virginia and Louisiana. See the full state-by-state breakdown atarborday.org/treereport.

The report also concluded the urban forestry sector — defined as the growing, distributing, planting, and maintaining of trees and forest where people live, work, play and learn — had an economic footprint of $35 billion with more than 500,000 people employed in the sector.

For more information about the study and its findings, visitarborday.org/treereport.

关于Arbor Day基金会

Founded in 1972, the Arbor Day Foundation has grown to become the largest nonprofit membership organization dedicated to planting trees, with more than one million members, supporters and valued partners. Since 1972, more than 400 million Arbor Day Foundation trees have been planted in neighborhoods, communities, cities and forests throughout the world. Our vision is to lead toward a world where trees are used to solve issues critical to survival.

As one of the world's largest operating conservation foundations, the Arbor Day Foundation, through its members, partners and programs, educates and engages stakeholders and communities across the globe to involve themselves in its mission of planting, nurturing and celebrating trees. More information is available atarborday.org.

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