What is Tree ?

Shoppers spend more time & around 11% more money in shopping areas which have many trees with a significant Leaf Surface Area

Some trees emit chemicals that attract enemies of their enemies.
Trees may look passive and helpless, but they're savvier than they seem. Not only can they produce chemicals to combat leaf-eating insects, for instance, but some also send airborne chemical signals to each other, apparently warning nearby trees to prepare for an insect attack. Research has shown that a wide range of trees and other plants become more resistant to insects after receiving these signals.

People who suffer from dementia are less agitated & confused when they can see trees or sit beneath a tree

Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rainwater and protecting aquifers and watersheds.

Trees' airborne signals can even convey information outside the plant kingdom. Some have been shown to attract predators and parasites that kill the insects, essentially letting an embattled tree call for backup. Research has mainly focused on chemicals that attract other arthropods, but as a 2013 study found, apple trees under attack by caterpillars release chemicals that attract caterpillar-eating birds.

Mental Health hospitals traditionally had large gardens with many tall trees because hospital workers noticed that patients were calmer, less violent & responded better to treatment when in a green leafy environment

Colorado’s forests are expansive, diverse and beautiful.

Trees increase community pride

Trees reduce what is termed ‘chronic mental fatigue’ which makes people irritable, impulsive & more prone to outbursts of anger by relaxing them

The different parts of a tree grow at different times throughout the year. Typically, most of the foliage growth happens in the spring, followed by trunk growth in the summer and root growth in the fall and winter.

They provide vital shelter for both people and wildlife, improve the quality of our water, filter pollutants from the air, enrich our outdoor experiences, and furnish products and jobs that strengthen local economies.

Trees in a forest can 'talk' and share nutrients through an underground internet built by soil fungi.Like most plants, trees have symbiotic relationships with mycorrhizal fungi that live on their roots. The fungi help trees absorb more water and nutrients from the soil, and trees repay the favor by sharing sugars from photosynthesis. But as a growing field of research shows, this mycorrhizal network also works on a much larger scale — sort of like an underground internet that connects entire forests.

Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are more responsive, calmer & have better concentration when they are near trees

Colorado’s nearly 24.5 million acres of forested landscape are perhaps the most complex of any in the Intermountain West, with a diverse mix of coniferous and deciduous species.

An avenue of tall street trees with a canopy which overhangs the road is held in high esteem by most members of the community

The fungi link each tree to others nearby, forming a huge, forest-scale platform for communication and resource sharing. As University of British Columbia ecologist Suzanne Simard has found, these networks include older, larger hub trees (or "mother trees") that may be connected to hundreds of younger trees around them. "We have found that mother trees will send their excess carbon through the mycorrhizal network to the understory seedlings," Simard explained in a 2016 TED Talk, "and we've associated this with increased seedling survival by four times."

Girls who can see trees from home have better concentration levels than those who can’t. They study more successfully, make better choices and are more likely to succeed

The most extensive forest types in Colorado are spruce-fir, ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, aspen and piñon-juniper.

Trees properly placed around buildings can reduce air conditioning needs by 30%

Workers who have a view of trees take less sick leave

An avenue of tall street trees with a canopy which overhangs the road is held in high esteem by most members of the community

This vegetative mosaic is a physical landscape that ranges from flat plains and high plateaus to steep mountains, deep canyons and sloping foothills.

And, as Simard recently told CNN, mother trees may even help forests adapt to human-induced climate change, thanks to their "memory" of slower natural changes in past decades or centuries. "They've lived for a long time and they've lived through many fluctuations in climate.

Trees make even crowded areas more pleasant by reducing noise & heat

A wide range of topographical, soil and growing conditions further influence this variety and contribute to the state’s multi-faceted forest resources.