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Baton Rouge, LA – The Times-Picayune
covered the tree-counting work in Mandeville led by SU Ag Center Urban Forestry
professor and program leader, Dr. Kamran Abdollahi. Graduate students and
professors at the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension
Center issued a report recently that
estimates there are 151,347 trees inside Mandeville city limits. Further, the
report concludes, those trees cover more than 41 percent of the city, remove
millions of tons of pollution and reduce annual energy costs by almost $82,000.
Maggie Trenary, a landscape and urban forestry inspector in
Mandeville’s Planning Department, said the goal was to put a number on all the
trees in the city.
Abdollahi, one of the study’s authors, said the inventory,
which not only lists the species of trees, but also the height, diameter and
health, aims to help communities gain a better understanding of the value of
their “urban forest.” Using modeling developed by the U.S. Forest Service, the
report attempts to quantify the forest in terms of energy savings, pollution
removal, and even replacement value.
“It’s a community that has a high value for trees,”
Abdollahi said.
The full story is available at
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/07/tree-loving_north_shore_city_t.html
For
further detail, contact Dr. Kamran Abdollahi at 225.771.6291 or kamran_abdollahi@suagcenter.com
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