The Science and Benefits of Windbreaks:

Trees can make or break city weather - Science Daily (Science of windbreaks)
 
Landscape Windbreaks and Efficiency - U.S. Department of Energy

How Windbreaks work


Fire Risk

*CAL FIRE Severity Zone Maps:

CAL FIRE map

Data Basin map

Yosemite West: Example Ecological Forest Mitigation (6.0) and shaded fuel break that saved the town.

Wildfire Lessons

Why the Ferguson Fire Didn’t Destroy Yosemite West

Task Force Report: Trees are NOT a primary fire hazard, by retired fire prevention chief of Oakland Army Base

Cutting trees won’t help us live with fire:

Wildfire Safety by not cutting trees

The Debate (Not even scientists and environmentalists agree)

The Atlantic, The Great Eucalyptus Debate -Emma Marris NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The Forest Action Bridgade requests correction of the public record regarding lifespan of eucalyptus

Diversity of Life in Eucalyptus:

Pollinators and many insects thrive in the Eucalyptus

Equal diversity in disparate species assemblages: A comparison of native and exotic woodlands in California

Testing an invasion mechanism for Eucalyptus globulus: Is there evidence of allopathy?

EVALUATING THE MYTH OF ALLELOPATHY IN CALIFORNIA BLUE GUM PLANTATIONS

Ecological Benefits of Trees:

How do Trees Cool The Air?

Urban Forests and Climate Change

Water is vital. We manage our water with trees/plants/forests

Old Trees Store more Carbon more Quickly than Younger Trees

Trees grow faster storing more carbon as they age

Using Trees and Vegetation to Reduce Heat Islands (all trees cool the planet)

Blessings of a Damned Tree

The Mother Tree Project

How Trees Talk to each other, youtube TED Talk by pioneer forest ecologist -Suzanne Simard

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World. By Peter Wohlleben, Mike Grady, et al.

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard