Our June Blog is some very important, and urgent, information from a  favorite organization – The Arbor Day Foundation and John Rosenow CEO (whose letter we’ve excerpted).

“Come with me for a moment… to a beautiful forest, the trees  lush & green…..to discover a sparkling stream….”

This is the beginning of the story of how trees give us clean water.

• Forest trees filter rainwater in their canopies.

• Trees making soil…absorb the water & snowmelt like a sponge, releasing it slowly instead of in a deluge.

• Tree roots hold the soil in place, preventing erosion & stopping mud & silt from running into our water supplies.

• Leaves & sticks form natural dams – slowing water flow and purifying it on it’s way to reservoirs.

In fact, forests in the U.S. provide drinking water to more than 180 million people…. And those forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate.

From 2003 to 2012, more than 72 million acres of forest land was devastated.  The news gets worse; we lost the trees on more than double the acres in 2012 than we did just 10 years earlier.

We Must Replace those Trees.  Without new tree plantings at least 36 of our 50 states anticipate water shortages within the next 10 years. And 40% of the world’s population will be living in water-scarce regions by 2025 (only a short 12 years away).

Your special donation (in any amount) to our TREES for AMERICA campaign right now will help us plant trees & educate people about the need to plant more. Each tree we plant will be a seed of hope.

“We need many things to live, but nothing is more vital than water.  There is no replacement for water. But we can replace trees.”

                     Yours very truly,  John Rosenow

                                                 Chief Executive
                                                 The Arbor Day Foundation

And so in closing, we urge you to join us as a member of The Arbor Day Foundation and help in keeping our earth healthy & green! 

Tim Bradley – Bradley Tree and Landscape