Planting Native Trees to Support Local Food Webs Native trees offer countless benefits beyond their four-season beauty––purifying air, shading and cooling in hot weather, storing atmospheric carbon, minimizing flooding and storm water runoff and helping to sustain vital pollinators, birds and other wildlife. It is important to consider trees as part of a forest-like system, even when not planted in actual forests but around homes and businesses, in parks and public open spaces, along city streets and highway margins and even in parking lot islands. In this one hour talk, Anna will teach the what, why, and how of planting native trees to support local food webs. Photo by Heather McCargo
