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Last May, we dug the holes for the very first Super Bowl Urban Forestry planting at Currie Park in Minneapolis. That “Golden Shovel” event denoted the environmental handoff to pass the Super Bowl from Houston to Minnesota. This event kicked off the urban forestry partnership between T

On Saturday, May 12, Tree Trust, the cities of Eden Prairie and St. Louis Park, and 50 community volunteers added a whopping 147 trees to the urban forests of those cities in just a few short hours! We planted 22 more trees than expected!  Every year, thanks to the generosity of

To see photos from this event, visit our Facebook. Lyndale Community School, Tree Trust, and CenterPoint Energy team up to create outdoor learning lab  (April, 2018) As part of the Tree Trust Learning with Trees program, 600 students, teachers, and community members of Lyndale Communi

Gordon Hanson is what we call a Branch Manager- a specially trained volunteer who guides groups of new volunteers through the tree planting process during our tree planting events. Gordon has been planting trees with us for more than 15 years, and over that time he’s helped volunteers

Tree Trust’s Green Futures program uses the power of individual donors and volunteers to plant hundreds of trees in communities in need. Urban and community forests provide a multitude of benefits to both humans and our environment: trees clean the air, mitigate stormwater runoff to o

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Last spring when we dug the holes for the first Super Bowl Urban Forestry planting at Currie Park in Minneapolis, it felt like this week would never arrive – but months later – it’s finally here! We wanted to provide a visual reminder of the tree plantings that Tree

Green Futures Program and Emerald Ash Borer Through our Green Futures Program, Tree Trust  planted 1,060 trees at 16 community sites between 2008-2017.  This program is increasing in popularity as cities become more aware of the losses they will suffer to their tree canopy as Emerald

The Learning with Trees program has been an important part of Tree Trust’s Community Forestry department since 1992. The program reinforces Tree Trust’s mission to increase the urban tree canopy, improve and increase education about the role trees play in our urban environment, and en

By Karen Zumach, Community Forestry Manager When was the last time you were stopped in your tracks by the size of a tree in your neighborhood or in your local park?  Chances are pretty good, that if you’re like me, it seems to happen less often these days. Larger trees seem to be disa