"Healthy Forests = Healthy Communities" Poster Contest

Healthy Forests = Healthy Communities!
This year's theme is "Healthy Forests = Healthy Communities". Trees benefit each and every person. They provide us food, drink, building materials, and so much more.
- Trees help clean our air.
- Trees remove pollution from the atmosphere, improving air quality and human health. (U.S. Forest Service, 2013); In Los Angeles, trees remove nearly 2,000 tons of air pollution each year. (U.S. Forest Service, 2011) ; In Chicago, trees remove more than 18,000 tons of air pollution each year.
(U.S. Forest Service, 2013); In Greater Kansas City, trees remove 26,000 tons of air pollution each year. (U.S. Forest Service, 2013). - Roadside trees reduce nearby indoor air pollution by more than 50%.
- Trees remove pollution from the atmosphere, improving air quality and human health. (U.S. Forest Service, 2013); In Los Angeles, trees remove nearly 2,000 tons of air pollution each year. (U.S. Forest Service, 2011) ; In Chicago, trees remove more than 18,000 tons of air pollution each year.
- Trees help reduce crime.
- In Baltimore, a 10% increase in tree canopy corresponded to a 12% decrease in crime.
- The University of Vermont and U.S. Forest Service, 2012
Among minor crimes, there is less graffiti, vandalism, and littering in outdoor spaces with trees as a part of the natural landscape than in comparable plant-less spaces.
- Trees provide much-needed cooling.
- Trees lower surface and air temperatures by providing shade. Shaded surfaces may be 20–45°F cooler than the peak temperatures of unshaded materials.
- Trees cool the city by up to 10°F by shading our homes and streets and releasing water vapor into the air through their leaves.
- Trees absorb carbon dioxide (CO2), removing and storing the carbon while releasing the oxygen back into the air.
- In one year, an acre of mature trees absorbs the amount of CO2 produced by a car driven 26,000 miles.
- Trees help us save energy
- Carefully positioned trees can reduce a household’s energy consumption for heating and cooling by up to 25%. Computer models devised by the U.S. Department of Energy predict that the proper placement of only three trees can save an average household between $100 and $250 in energy costs annually.
- Trees contribute to our health.
- A study of 10 cities found community forests save an average of one life each year. In New York City, trees save an average of eight lives every year.
- Trees are a good investment of our public dollars
- A cost-benefit analysis of the Berkeley, California, tree canopy indicated that each camphor tree had an annual net benefit to the city and its residents of nearly $12,500, each Shamel ash showed a $9,600 annual net benefit, and each London planetree had an annual net benefit of more than $8,700 per trees
The source can be found at https://www.arborday.org/trees/treefacts/
Contest Information
Find all the resources and information you need on this year's contest sponsored by the North Platte Natural Resources District.
- Contest Information - Detailed Information
- Download Contest Registration Form - Forms must accompany every entry
- Additional Resources for both students and teachers
- Some cool Curriculum to do while coving the topic of trees! Please use!
- Please attach the entry form to the back of the poster!
The deadline to enter is November 8, 2021!
Contest Rules
- Open to all Elementary students in Banner, Garden, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, and southern Sioux Counties. Age categories are:
- K-1
- 2-3
- 4-6
- 7-9
- 10-12
- Any media may be used to create a flat or two-dimensional effect (paint, crayon, colored pencil, charcoal, paper or other materials).
- The poster size must be between 8.5 x 11. The size of a typical sheet of printer paper.
- All posters must have the student’s full name, age, grade, and school attached to the back of the poster, on the entry form.
- All posters must be created by an individual student rather than a team of students.
- Although younger students will most likely receive help in planning from parents or teachers, we encourage each student to do as much of the work as possible by him/herself.
- First-place winners in each age division will receive a prize and media recognition.
- Entries can be mailed in a large manila envelope to North Platte NRD, Poster Contest, P.O. Box 280, Scottsbluff, NE 69363 or dropped off at our office at 100547 Airport Road, Scottsbluff.
- Prizes will be given to first, second, and third places for each division.
Poster Evaluations
The posters will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Conservation message
- Neatness
- Visual effectiveness
- Originality
- Universal appeal
More Information
For more information, contact Amanda Shepperd at the NPNRD at 308-632-2749 or email her at
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