Foresters provide residents free tree appraisal, guidance, training

By Art Bushue

CHAIR, CLINTON

FORESTRY BOARD

The average residential tree adds more than $1,400 to the value of its property in the eyes of prospective buyers. Also, a tree’s numerous benefits – many unknown by the public – repay some three times the investment made in them over their lifetimes!

They provide shade, cooling, animal habitat, ‘peace of mind’ and some twenty additional benefits for mankind, all currently and for the future! So, what prudent person wouldn’t strive mightily to provide their trees the best care possible?

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