Theresa Crimmins, 2019-2020 Fellow. This piece was first published in Arizona Daily Star.
“Planting trees is trendy right now. A study published in the journal Science earlier this year proposed that massive-scale tree planting efforts, on the scale of reforesting an area the size of the United Sates, could compensate for up to two-thirds of the carbon dioxide that humans have added to the atmosphere over the last 200 years.”