Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions – John Muir, American Naturalist It has been quite some time since I posted my previous blog paper from the USA. I had to get away from my pressing personal engagements to snatch some moments to put together my random thoughts on one of the most important aspects of ensuring environmental amelioration in our urban settings. That is the subject of protecting the existing heritage trees in urban areas and augmenting urban green spaces (UGS). Urbanization trend across the globe is keeping a fast pace, of course, for valid economic and social reasons. Cities and towns develop along with a host of environmental challenges that stem from high human densities, enhanced per capita consumption of resources, commensurate generation of wastes of all sorts and consequent environmental crisis. Human health implications from unplanned expansion of urban centers without adequate green space are huge. Urban forestry including tree
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