Menchhofer Tree Care

TREE FACTS

A large tree in an average neighborhood provides the following benefits each year:

Saves almost 30% in air conditioning costs by shading the home and cooling the air.
Absorbs about 10 pounds of air pollutants.
Intercepts almost 800 gallons of rainfall in it's crown thereby reducing runoff of polluted stormwater and flooding.
Cleans about 330 pound of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduces power plant emissions due to cooling energy savings.
Properly pruned trees add about 15% to the property value of the homeowner.

Trees are the tallest, most massive, longest lived organisms ever to grow on the earth. On a hot sunny day, a mature maple tree transpires over 250 gallons of water through its leaves. On the average, only 1/8 of each cut hardwood tree can be sold as lumber..the rest is lost when the tops and limbs are removed during harvesting. If everyone recycled just the Sunday newspaper, it would save over 50,000 trees per week.