In one year, an acre of trees can absorb as much carbon as is produced by a car driven up to 8700 miles!
Trees provide shade and shelter, reducing yearly heating and cooling costs by 2.1 billion dollars!
Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
Trees cut down noise pollution by acting as sound barriers.
Tree roots stabilize the soil and prevent erosion.
Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water as well as protecting aquifers and watersheds.
One tree produces nearly 260 pounds of oxygen each year!
One of the tallest soft wood trees is the General Sherman, a giant redwood sequoia of California. General Sherman is about 275 ft or 84 m high with a girth of 25 ft or 8 m.
"Dendrochronology" is the science of calculating a tree's age by its rings.
The effort included 400-500 seeds, which orbited the moon on the first few days of February 1971. NASA and the USFS wanted to see if being in space and in the moon's orbit would cause the seeds to grow differently than other seeds.
The smallest “woody plant” in the world is the Dwarf Willow standing only 6 centimeters in height!
"Methuselah" is the world's Oldest Living Tree! It resides in California at over 4,768 years old!!
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