Trees lining California streets are worth $1 billion

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By Clayton AldernJun 16, 2016, 8:26 am250 pts
It’s not easy to price a tree, but a group of researchers from the U.S. Forest Service and U.C. Davis have tried to do exactly that. Working with a dataset of about 900,000 trees that line California’s public streets, the group sought to place a dollar value on the services those trees perform, which…

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