The Benefits of Trees for Humans (and What Trees Talk About When We're Not Listening)
Trees provide humans with a wealth of benefits and services relative to the environment, the economy, and human health and cognition. But trees also have figured out how to share resources and how to support their colleagues, and they do this by a fascinating method of communication.
R.J. Laverne, PhD, a faculty member at Michigan Tech, will explore these topics and reveal more secrets of these surprising living organisms. He'll also provide resources for tree selection, particularly in urban areas.
Laverne is the manager of education and training for the Davey Tree Expert Company in Kent, Ohio, and also teaches Urban Forestry in MTU's College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. He is a board certified master arborist and a registered consulting arborist. When he’s not teaching about trees, he’s probably trying to make something out of wood.
Laverne's presentation is sponsored by the Wild Ones Keweenaw chapter and the Keweenaw Garden Club.
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