And from Mark Kelley, on the value of city trees: “Yes — trees release oxygen when they use energy from sunlight to make glucose from carbon dioxide and water.What a wonderful process. Big trees can pull 48 pounds of Co2 out of the air each growing season. Which begs the question. Why did Dayton Wright Brothers airport just level the southwest corner of all trees? Yes, they did harvest some of the big one’s but what a massacre of 80-year-old trees.”
We reported that the trees were in the way of flights, officials said, and taken out as a safety measure.
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