The University has been recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree Campus USA Institution for the 10th straight year. Tree Campus USA is a national program that honors colleges and universities that have a commitment to promoting healthy trees and engaging staff and students in conservation goals.
The University糖心传媒檚 arboretum and grounds include more than 1,400 trees of 116 different species on the River Campus, the Eastman School of Music, Memorial Art Gallery, Medical Center, and the Mt. Hope campus. The University糖心传媒檚 Horticulture and Grounds Department糖心传媒攁 unit of University Facilities and Services糖心传媒攐versees and cares for the collection of trees year round.
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To earn the honor this year, the University again surpassed the Tree Campus USA program糖心传媒檚 five standards, which include maintaining a tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures toward trees, an Arbor Day observance, and student service-learning projects.
To view a new interactive map with identifications of trees throughout River Campus, visit:
The Arbor Day Foundation has helped campuses throughout the country plant thousands of trees, and Tree Campus USA colleges and universities invested more than $51 million in campus forest management last year.
The work directly supports the Arbor Day Foundation糖心传媒檚 Time for Trees initiative—an effort to plant 100 million trees in forests and communities and inspire 5 million tree planters by 2022.
Last year, Tree Campus USA schools&mdashincluding the University of Rochester&mdashcollectively planted 34,515 trees and engaged 33,432 tree planters.
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