What we are going to do is plant a Meyer’s Spruce tree in an area of large land. We already have the trees, so once we can plant them, it should be a pretty fun project!
To solve our problem of not enough trees, we will plant trees around the more unnattractive and unenvironmental areas of St. Louis. We will also plant these trees where there is not a lot of honeysuckle, so the trees have the ability to grow to their full potential. We will try to research which areas are in need of wildlife, and find permission from the landowners to plant trees. We will be able to tell how our problem has been solved by visually seeing the dead areas we improved and try to find a calculation of how much oxygen the trees will be producing once growing bigger. We can see how much oxygen the trees we are planting give off, and multiply it by how many trees we’re planting, to see what a difference it really makes. We can also take before and after pictures of the area to see how we improved the place visually by planting the trees. The short-term solution will be more for the visual effects, so others can see there are trees planted, to automatically give the area more respect, while the long-term plan will be how beneficial the trees will be once they’ve reached their full potential in growth.
Sources:
1.http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G6800
2.http://vimeo.com/28789922
The problem exists for several reasons. One being where there are a lot of buildings and offices, there isn’t much room for trees. Another problem is people are lazy and if there aren’t already trees grown naturally, they don’t want to take the time to plant trees, even if they live or stay in the area every day. The problem doesn’t fix itself because while some trees can blow off seeds, causing a new tree to grow, it’s not enough to fix the problem, and there needs to be human contact within the issue so that people are planting trees and caring for them so they grow to be big and healthy. If this problem is not fixed, parts of our city will not look nice, and over the course of time, the air will become very polluted.
Sources:
1.http://forestry.about.com/od/treephysiology/tp/tree_value.htm
2.http://www.mhmail.com/links/planting-trees.html
Our problem is there aren’t enough trees planted in certain areas of St. Louis, causing a lack of oxygen, scenic beauty, and natural wildlife. The problem can be seen in certain areas, where there’s either no wildlife, or very few, and there’s a lot of buildings, so the air is more polluted than in morenatural areas. It’s worth my time because it’s important to have trees planted in our city where there aren’t already plants because not only does it do so much for the environment and air that we breathe, but it also makes our city look better and more healthy. The problem doesn’t really impact Parkway North, because there are already enough trees around this area to where it doesn’t need much improvement, but other parts of the city do need it, and that’s where I’m going to plant trees.
Sources.
1.http://www.mhmail.com/links/planting-trees.html
2.http://forestry.about.com/od/treephysiology/tp/tree_value.htm