State’s street trees remove 567,748 tons of CO2 annually, equivalent to taking 120,000 cars off the road

A new report from the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station estimates trees lining Californian streets and boulevards provide benefits to municipalities and residents worth $1 billion. The study, called Structure, function and value of street trees in California, by E. Gregory McPhersona, Natalie van Doornb and John de Goedec of the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station and University of California Davis, compiled recent inventory data from 929,823...