Something that I focus a lot on is how I can make a difference in my town, and one of those ways is to help out the environmental commission. This month, helping out meant the tedious task of driving all over town and deciding whether houses should plant a small tree or a large one. This may seem inconsequential, but this very time consuming work is actually very important. Tree planting is very important for the environment. It can help increase air quality, provide much needed canopy cover during heat strokes, assist with flooding and surface runoff, and they hold plants and other vegetation in place with their complex root systems. Many houses in my town have open spaces, spaces that  could easily hold a tree or multiple trees. On top of this, there is a government incentive. The state that I reside in gives out grants to towns in order to plant trees. The goal of this is to try to sow a community of tree planters that can help raise the tree population of our state. My job in all of this was to sort of canvas each of the houses that volunteered to plant a tree and see if their house could fit either a large or small tree, as mentioned before. This is important because property laws prohibit every house from growing a massive tree, so in order for every house to contribute maximally to the cause, I had to canvas each one individually.