Communities with more trees are more resilient and healthier. (Credit: Edi Chen/Adobe Stock) Communities with more trees are more resilient and healthier. (Credit: Edi Chen/Adobe Stock)

Editor's Note: This is the third and final installment in a series about urban forests.

Trees are, as David George Haskell says in the Song of Trees, nature's great connectors. They hold the earth together with their roots. They provide nourishment and shelter for innumerable forms of life; they provide relief from heat, reducing death and illness during heatwaves; they provide shade that lowers energy demands.

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