6,182 trees have been inventoried on Shorewood Hills public property (3,421 are street trees and 2,761 are found in parks and other Village green spaces).
The replacement value (Council of Tree and Landscape Appraiser’s formula) for these trees is $6.9 million (an average of $1,128 per tree).
Shorewood Hills receives $937,622 in annual benefits from its public trees. Comparing this to annual tree maintenance costs of $130,000, a benefit to cost ratio of 7:1 is calculated. For each dollar the Village invests in its forestry operations it receives $7.21 in return.
Annually, public trees in Shorewood Hills sequester nearly 2 million pounds of carbon. This is equivalent to driving an average car 1.9 million miles.
Trees in Shorewood Hills intercept 8.2 million gallons of stormwater per year resulting in an annual benefit valued at $221,917.
5,130 pounds of air pollutants are removed annually by trees included in this inventory for a total value of $31,139 each year.
Aesthetic and cultural benefits provided by public trees were attributed a value of $620,674.
Energy savings, brought about by lower cooling and heating costs, total $228,841 annually for Village residents.
116 different tree species were found within Shorewood Hills.
The top five most common tree species found were hackberry (8.7%), Norway maple (7.9%), black locust (5.7%), white oak (5.7%), and green ash (5.7%).
There were 360 trees in need of removal and 108 trees in need of safety prunes.
63% of the trees inventoried were considered mature or old.
65% of public trees inventoried were in good or excellent condition, while 8% were rated in poor or very poor condition.
872 trees were located underneath or near utility lines (14% of the trees inventoried).
The total value of the public trees inventoried was $6,290,054.
