LFPL's At the Library Series

As nature’s largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cities. Today, four-fifths of Americans live in or near urban areas, surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different species. Despite their ubiquity and familiarity, most of us take trees for granted and know little of their fascinating natural history or remarkable civic virtues.Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests tells the captivating stories of the founding mothers and fathers of urban forestry, and discusses the value of trees to public health and to our urban infrastructure.