Without trees, settlers had no wood to build houses.
VOA: special.2010.04.15
Miami recently found that its electricity bills were 10 percent lower in areas with more than 20 percent tree cover compared to those areas without any trees, the New Scientist reports.
He knows that big companies will probably never want to make GM versions of a minor crop like walnuts, but he bemoans the fact that protecting his treeswithout pesticides is expensive (he uses pheromones to lure the insects into mating with everything but one another).