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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REDUCE EXTREME HEAT, GLOBAL WARMING, AND HEALTH RISKS WITH PARKING LOT SHADE DAVIS, CA, August 24, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Parking lots occupy about 10% of the land in many of our cities. Unfortunately, almost all these parking lots have inadequate tree shade and thus are major contributors to increased urban temperatures - heat islands - and smog through increased emissions of evaporative hydrocarbons from gas tanks. These conditions contribute to global warming and pose a serious threat to human health. The answer is to plant more trees in parking lots to provide at least 50% canopy cover over lot surfaces. For more information: http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/programs/cufr/products/3/cufr_151.pdf CONTACT: Shelley Gardner Center for Urban Forest Research USDA Forest Service PSW Phone: 530-754-5473 Fax: 530-752-6634 slgardner@ucdavis.edu 
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