With all of our parks and the Fallbrook Land Conservancy / Save our Forest working hard to build a great treescape, I’m not sure that I agree with this latest report that Fallbrook doesn’t have good access to nature. See for yourself:
From the Washington Post:
Using satellite imagery and data on dozens of factors — including air and noise pollution, park space, open water and tree canopy — NatureQuant has distilled the elements of health-supporting nature into a single variable called NatureScore. Aggregated to the level of Census tracts — roughly the size of a neighborhood — the data provide a high-resolution image of where nature is abundant and where it is lacking across the United States.
Why does nature make us healthy? One answer is the “old friends hypothesis” that our immune systems grow stronger when regularly exposed to the natural pathogens with which we evolved. Or maybe it’s that being in nature nudges us to exercise and socialize.
Click here to read the whole article (paywall)
I entered the address at Fallbrook St and Main to get our NatureScore and it’s not good, we’re rated as Nature Deficient:
