Incase shade wasn’t reason enough to plant a tree in the High Desert, I’ve found several additional reasons to plant trees on your property. A research article written by Jessica B. Turner-Skoff in July of 2019 cites many articles and studies showing the benefits of trees in many different areas of life.
These benefits include: decreasing pollution, a myriad of health benefits, better mental health, encouraged physical activity, reduced violence in households, limiting criminal activity in neighborhoods, increasing home value, increased rental rates, and reduced energy usage.
Incase you want to learn more about any of the studies done, you can access them through the research article by Jessica B. Turner-Skoff, or through the links below:
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- https://www.pnas.org/content/112/28/8567
- https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/28/8567.full.pdf
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02253/full
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2512784
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2667069
- https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-069X-12-43
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1104975
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2205842
- https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60898-3/fulltext
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/1393589
- https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1510363
- https://www.pnas.org/content/112/28/8567
- https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11610
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797612464659?journalCode=pssa
- https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/1991/nc_1991_dwyer_001.pdf
- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758%2FBF03207221.pdf
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2FBF03207221
- https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(08)00734-4/fulltext
- https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7517/611
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01389/full
- https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/442a/8983fb76744deac98ab521fd6c90a941e7ea.pdf
- https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2012/nrs_2012_troy_001.pdf
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Sullivan6/publication/245234610_Aggression_and_Violence_in_the_Inner_City/links/0deec527276367c653000000.pdf
- https://www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/ja/2012/ja_2012_donovan_001.pdf
- https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2017/nrs_2017_kondo_001.pdf
- https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2016/nrs_2016_troy_001.pdf
- https://www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/ja/2012/ja_2012_donovan_001.pdf
- http://unri.org/ECO%20697U%20S14/transforming_inner_city_landcapes_-_kuo.pdf
- https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CbDDylu4pw0C&oi=fnd&pg=PT21&ots=1JQhCqcgB8&sig=upYV2YJQzRZMNmEFX9hB_iN5IHw#v=onepage&q&f=false
- http://www.willsull.net/Publications_files/Taylor,%20Kuo,%20Sullivan%202001a.pdf
- https://vegetableproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Faber-Taylor-2009-Children-with-attention.pdf
- https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2005_wolf001.pdf
- https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2010_donovan001.pdf
- https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2010/nrs_2010_sander_001.pdf
- https://www.auburn.edu/academic/forestry_wildlife/forest_policy_ctr/documents/energy-savings-ecol-econ.pdf
