Tree City USA
“Trees, wherever they’re planted, are a source of joy and spiritual renewal… I urge all citizens to plant trees to gladden hearts, and to promote the well-being of future generations.” —River Grove, IL proclamation
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15 Reasons to Become a Tree City

Becoming a Tree City:

  1. encourages better care of community forests
  2. touches the lives of people within the community who benefit daily from cleaner air, shadier streets, and aesthetic beauty that healthy, well-managed urban forests provide
  3. recognizes and rewards communities for annual advancements in urban forestry practices
  4. increases public awareness of the many social, economical and environmental benefits urban forestry practices
  5. Provides education to improve current urban forestry practices
  6. builds cooperation between public and private sectors to effectively manage urban forests
  7. encourages, supports, and strengthens effective urban forestry programs in diverse communities nationwide
  8. can make a strong contribution to a community’s pride
  9. serves as a blueprint for planting and maintaining a community’s trees
  10. puts people in touch with other communities and resources that can help them improve their program
  11. brings solid benefits to a community such as helping to gain financial support for tree projects and contributing to safer and healthier urban forests
  12. helps present the kind of image that most citizens want to have for the place they live or conduct business
  13. tells visitors, through signage, that here is a community that cares about its environment
  14. sometimes gives preference over other communities when allocations of grant money are made for trees or forestry programs, and
  15. provides a way to reach large numbers of people with information about tree care

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