Trees: Friend or Foe?
Trees are my friends. At least that’s what I tell people when I slice a golf drive and my ball bounces off a pine tree and ends up back on the fairway. Trees shade us in summer and heat us in winter. They provide lumber for our homes and fruit for our diets. They protect the lakes by keeping them cool and holding the soil from washing into the water. But trees can just as easily turn against us. They will drop dead limbs on our roofs or uproot in a storm and fall on our car or our house. …