Thank You for Participating in Tree Day 2025Tennesseans rallied together to plant a greener future on March 29th, for Tennessee Tree Day 2025! We're immensely grateful for our volunteers' unwavering dedication, our sponsors' generous support, and the tireless efforts of everyone who contributed. This year, more than 162 volunteer pick-up sites distributed over 75,000 trees to 7,000 planting locations, and an estimated 10,000 volunteers helped plant them. Your enthusiastic participation transformed potential setbacks into triumphs, ensuring Tree Day 2025 left a lasting, positive impact. Thank you for helping us grow!
Share your Tree Day pictures with us! We would love to see pictures of you and your newly planted trees. You can post them on our Tree Day group by clicking the button below or send them to [email protected] 
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What is Tennessee Tree Day? Each year Tennessee Tree Day engages thousands of volunteers in a fun, family-friendly event planting native tree seedlings all across Tennessee. Tennessee Environmental Council works with TN Department of Forestry and other nurseries to supply bare-root native tree seedlings to citizens across the state through our network of volunteer partners and local businesses. When children plant trees, they learn to see trees as part of their community. Engaging in Tree Day helps increase awareness of the economic and social value of trees while nurturing our statewide tree canopy and creating a culture of sustainability in our region. While some people plant trees to replace those lost to development or weather events, others plant trees to help repair degraded streams and improve water quality. Whether you’re planting for caterpillar and bird habitat or purely for aesthetic reasons, native trees improve the health of our communities by reducing air pollution, trapping rainwater, cooling our cities and providing homes and food for Tennessee’s wide variety of song birds. Since 2007, Tennessee Tree Day events have mobilized over 100,000 residents to plant over one million native trees in Tennessee and the surrounding states. Plant a native tree and make your community a little better than you found it. Watch the video below on how to properly plant a bare-root tree seedling!
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2025 Tennessee Tree Day Species
Tree species this year included elderberry, eastern red cedar, white oak, flowering dogwood, tulip poplar, pecan, red mulberry, witch-hazel, eastern redbud, wild plum, mockernut hickory, shagbark hickory, persimmon, and black cherry. |
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