Shop Featured Holiday Categories. Home Decor. Holiday Decor. Christmas Trees. Holiday Lighting. Gift Cards. What is a Tree Worth? Wilson Quarterly Winter Several of the folks profiled in the article are both friends and colleagues: What Is a Tree Worth?
Check it out! Email Save Comment 2. Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Like Save. Related Discussions What style is this house? Hey Sarah, do you plan on doing a Full On Reno option? A WRAP project is a weekend 'fit-up' and very inexpensive to do - without having to remove your existing posts which can result in costly structural issues when not planned properly. You will also see a noticable change in a short period of time which is quite motivating.
I've done a rough illustration so you can have a sense of what I am suggesting here and in my previous comment. Colors could be anything you like. I haven't seen them painted to know if it is successful or not. Not knowing your City Zoning requirements please note my ideas or product recommendations are for jumping off points and only what I am familiar with.
Hi Holly: I am actually familiar with that area! I live in an Victorian in Northville At first I thought that this house was in the historical area of Ypsilanti, and I was going to suggest taking a cue from neighboring houses for color, but I believe that this house is more in a mixed area of housing newer and older - am I thinking of the right area?
Anyway, if that is the case, I think you can go in any direction you would like with color, and I would go with a color as opposed to a neutral. The photo is a little fuzzy, but it looks like you may have brick lintels curved portion of brick over the windows?
If this is the case, I would go with a 3-color paint scheme: the body brick of the house, the trim and the window muntins. When I put together a scheme like this, I usually use 2 shades of one color with a 3rd as an accent e. Or how about a darker wheat on the body, a lighter wheat on the trim and a dark green on the muntins? The possibilities are endless. When McPherson had come west, he found under way in Sacramento a real-life study of how trees save energy.
In , the Sacramento Municipal Utility District had been forced by outraged voters to close its dysfunctional Rancho Seco nuclear plant. By , more than , trees had been planted, and the utility wanted to assess whether they were starting to reduce energy use. It gathered information from homes on tree mortality, location, species, and size, as well as all the relevant specs on each house. Some of that improvement can be measured.
As more trees are planted and the new canopy becomes lusher, the energy savings will continue to grow. When and if it can begin selling carbon credits, the utility will start to make a profit on its shade tree program. In the post-Chicago years, McPherson and Nowak developed their science and models, engaging in ever more ambitious studies. McPherson began systematically studying a reference city in each of 16 climate zones to expand his database.
As this new research became known, city foresters and nonprofit arbor groups increasingly drew on it to advocate for trees. With the advances made over the preceding dozen years, McPherson could deliver a far more sophisticated report than he had for Chicago. Air pollution: Each street tree removed an average of 1. These drew on straight-up economic studies of real estate prices as well as social science research, which showed, for example, that hospital patients who could see a tree out the window of their room were discharged a day earlier than those without such a view.
In Los Angeles, meanwhile, another tree-hugging mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, had already launched his own Million Trees initiative back in Their mission for Million Trees LA was to gauge the size of the existing canopy, figure out if there was room for another million trees in the square-mile city, and, if there was, determine the best places to plant them. City officials directed McPherson to create a map showing the canopy cover in each of the 15 councilmanic districts.
Council members in east and south L. In the wake of the report, the emphasis of Million Trees LA shifted. At long last, this radical new way of thinking about city trees had begun to influence politicians, planners, and city managers.
Once they had the science, urban forestry champions became frustrated by the puzzle of how to disseminate what they had learned. David Nowak, who has long worked out of the U. In early , Mark Buscaino, the new head of urban forestry at the U. Gregory Ina, general manager of the Davey Institute at the Davey Tree Expert Company, loved the idea and brought Maco on board in to run the effort.
In tandem with the U. Forest Service and other partners, Maco and Davey Tree have worked to make the i-Tree software more sophisticated and easier to customize, and they provide customer support to the municipalities, scholars, foresters, consultants, and nonprofit and citizen groups that use it. Davey estimates that last year 2, i-Tree projects were under way, mostly in the United States. A software package called i-Tree Hydro, which models stormwater hydrology, will be released this winter.
One spin-off, developed in partnership with the Washington, D. It buffers us from a nearby busy street, abates noise, and once held a rope swing for my daughter. They convert carbon dioxide to oxygen. The absorb stormwater runoff.
They reduce energy costs. In springtime, many bloom and are highly fragrant. In the fall they can provide incredible color. The price report provides state-wide, average standing timber prices for pine, oak, and mixed hardwood sawtimber, pine chip-n-saw, and pine and hardwood pulpwood. This information is made possible through an agreement with Timber Mart-South. The price report will be available to download by the end of the month following the last day of the quarter.
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