THE newly formed Stirling Urban Tree Network is hosting a community forum on why we need trees in the suburbs if we want to avoid urban heat, increase property prices and keep people sane.
Based on the Bayswater Urban Tree Network driven by the Voice’s regular dendrophile correspondent Greg Smith, organiser Leisha Jack says the new group wants to get the concrete-happy Stirling suburbs savvy about the benefits of trees so people will want to keep them around.
Helen Brown from the Curtin uni school of public health will talk about the importance of urban trees for physical and mental health, urban planner Peter Ciemitis yarns about our individual roles in the loss of urban forest, and Paul Hardisty from the CSIRO will be talking urban heat caused by the lack of trees.
Hosted with the Mt Lawley Society, It’s at the Mt Lawley bowling club on June 8 at 6.30pm. Register mountlawleysociety@gmail.com
by DAVID BELL
Perth Voice Interactive 
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