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Good to have studies, but shouldn't even need them as the effect is pretty clear and undebatable when just experienced. It is not only coverage but evaporation
by throwbadubadu 3y ago
Good to have studies, but shouldn't even need them as the effect is pretty clear and undebatable when just experienced. It is not only coverage but evaporation from trees, too, besides the nice view and psychological effect of bringing a bit if nature into dead towns.
Agreed, very smart, never understood why not more cities do that when feasible besides the long existing examples, especially as we have those heat waves and future prediction for quite a while..
- lazyasciiart 3y agoSo instead of studies they should just, what, have someone walk the entire city to identify these spots?
- doctorhandshake 3y agoThat’s not remotely as crazy as you make it sound. This sort of census is used to count all sorts of things. In the case of NYC street trees, it’s been done three times before: https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/treescount https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/treescount
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- lazyasciiart 3y agoThe tree census is not “someone walking around identifying trees”, it is a study. It takes a ton of organization, methodology, data collection and management. It’s an excellent example of why you need an actual study even to collect obvious data like “that’s a tree!”
- melagonster 3y agobut committee members will ask questions about the effects of their budget.