Individual trees and bushes are valuable, but species variability, their size, conditions, and function influence in determining their economic value. Economic benefits from trees may be direct or indirect.

Trees are a wise capital investment, since land with forested properties have a higher capital gain that those without. Savings in energy costs and increases in property values directly benefit each farm owner.

Indirect economic benefits from trees are even greater. These are available for communities or regions. Customers pay lower electric bills when utility companies use less water in their cooling towers, build smaller installations to meet peak demand, use less fossil fuel in their furnaces, and need fewer airborne contamination controls. Communities can also save if the region requires construction of fewer storm runoff controls. For an individual, these are small savings, but at the community level, these expenses imply significant spending.  

 

Reduction of timber production pressure on the forest - planting trees for saw timber

Deforestation of wooded areas with a high ecological value is the consequence of a shortage of wood and the lack of productive and profitable alternatives for farm owners. Planting saw timber variety trees on agricultural land reduces deforestation problems and preserves the life of many forest trees in the forest as well as protecting the flora and fauna associated with them.

 

Each saw timber tree cultivated prevents the destruction of 16 trees in tropical forests, which are subjected to exploitation and destruction for timber extraction.