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Why Plant a Tree:


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Well placed shade trees can lower your roof and wall temperatures and help save over 15% on your electrical bills. Shading and cooling an air conditioning unit can increase its efficiency by 10%

Trees can help your property values. Trees help to stabilize and add beauty to neighborhoods and can add considerable value to the typical Chattanooga home.

Trees help clean the air by removing poisonous gasses and particulates such as dusts and pollens. They produce vital oxygen for us to breathe and absorb carbon dioxide, one of the so-called "greenhouse gasses."

Trees provide food, nesting sited and protestion to the birds, mammals and other wildlife that help fill our lives and our children's lives with beautiful sights, sounds, diversity and wonderment.

What better way to remember a friend or loved one or commemorate a birth or marriage than to plant a tree!

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