Are trees really that important?

Question

Are trees really that important?

Answer 1

If we didn't have trees we wouldn't have oxygen.

Plain and simple.

Not to mention millions and millions of animal and insect species call them home.

Answer 2

I hope you're not serious.

It wouldn't be a stretch to say that trees are the most important plants on earth.  



Trees, as everyone else said, give off oxygen and use CO2.

But that is only part of their importance.  We aren't the only species that it is important.  It's not just all about what we breathe.  Everything in nature is interconnected. Everything in the universe is interconnected for that matter.

We cannot exist seperate from the ecosytems of earth.  Trees are an extremely important part of most of the ecosystems on land.  

  Trees hold soil together and limit erosion.  

Trees hold moisture that benefits all the living things in the forest or jungle. That includes moisture in the soil and in the trees themselves, both in them and on them.  They snag moisture form fog and rain.  The Redwoods of California probably couldn't survive without the fog of the coast.  And so neither could all the species that depend on the forest for habitat.  Trees provide habitat for numerous species of other animals, plants,fungae lichen birds snakes insects monkeys squirrels etc.  Untold numbers of species are dependent on their survival for trees, even if they don't live in them

Trees actually help to create local climate.  

Trees are very useful to us for medicine, resins, wood, paper etc.  Aspirin was discovered in the bark of a tree- slippery elm I think.   .

The Boreal Forest of Canada is one of the biggest intact ecosystems on earth, and is being fragmented and deforested, largely to make junk mail, consumer catalogs, toilet paper, paper towels etc., for the American consumer.  We really need to start making paper from hemp which is much more sustainable.  

The quickest way to destroy an ecosystem like this is to fragment it, which what is happening.  

Not all the damage is from logging.

Great article about this here:

http://www.forestethics.org/article.php?...      

This forest is used by more than half the birds in the U.S. , either for feeding or breeding.  

It's watershed is important to much of North America, and it is one of the largest carbon sinks on earth.  It's home to over 5 billion birds.

Answer 3

Rainforest's wouldn't be rainforest's if not for trees.

You must not like trees or understand were we

get oxygen. Plants and trees are nice!!

Answer 4

The Egyptians didn't have many of them, and they did pretty well.

Answer 5

Uhhhhhhhh..... Let me think...

YA TREES ARE IMPORTANT!!! IF IT WERN'T FOR TREES YOU WOULD BE DEAD RIGHT NOW AND IT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO KEEP THEM ALIVE.

Answer 6

yes, they give you the air your breathing right now.

Answer 7

google 'easter island'

Answer 8

They have their uses but you can live without them. And the whole photosynthesis thing comes from plants that live in the water. People are saying trees give us oxygen but 75% of planet Earth is water, land based plants make up a minuscule amount of the oxygen we breathe.

Answer 9

Trees 'drink' carbon dixoide.. Trees give out Oxygen.. We breathe Oxygen.. we breathe out carbon dixoide.. > Trees 'drink' carbon dixoide.. Trees give out Oxygen.. We breathe Oxygen.. we breathe out carbon dixoide.. > Trees 'drink' carbon dixoide.. Trees give out Oxygen.. We breathe Oxygen.. we breathe out carbon dixoide.. > Trees 'drink' carbon dixoide.. Trees give out Oxygen.. We breathe Oxygen.. we breathe out carbon dixoide.. > Trees 'drink' carbon dixoide.. Trees give out Oxygen.. We breathe Oxygen.. we breathe out carbon dixoide.. >

Do I have to say more :-)

Answer 10

is breathing really that important to you, so guess where we get our air to breathe

Answer 11

Try living in an environment that's all concrete and absolutely no trees for miles and miles around.

In the rainy seasons you will have flood everywhere.

In the cold winter season you'll turn into popscicle.

In the summer season you'll fry.

Answer 12

oh brother....

Answer 13

Trees give us oxygen and we give it carbon dioxide. If the "tree" was takin' from the cycle I'm guessing we wouldn't have sufficient air. We talked about this in science class I think its the carbon cycle.