Read up on the latest tree news, events and TreesLouisville updates.
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TreesLouisville was recently featured in The Atlantic! The article explores the current challenges that urban trees face in a changing climate and some of the methods that arborists around the country are utilizing to meet those challenges, like selecting tree species for specific traits ... Continue reading →
Our Executive Director, Cindi Sullivan, was recently interviewed for an article by British publication The Guardian about some of the ways that TreesLouisville and other organizations are working to tackle rising temperatures and loss of canopy in our city. Read ... Continue reading →
Redlining was the discriminatory practice of withholding home ownership loans from residents of “distressed” neighborhoods in the first few decades of the 20th century. This practice occurred in cities across the US, including in Louisville. “Quality grades” for these areas ... Continue reading →
TreesLouisville is seeking multiple high school-age applicants for seven-week long summer Arboriculture/Plant Health Care/Data Collection Technician paid positions. Trainees will work with supervisors to learn tree identification and gain hands-on experience in tree best management practices, tree health evaluation and ... Continue reading →
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A Louisville non-profit is fighting to preserve a piece of land that it says has been historically neglected. The Greenwood Cemetery in the Chickasaw neighborhood, where most of those buried are African-American, is lined with shifting ... Continue reading →
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – A new program is helping replenish the city’s disappearing tree canopy and saving residents money. Through a partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, TreesLouisville is providing 870 free trees to Louisville residents. The trees will help ... Continue reading →
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – TreesLouisville is planting 140 trees at Newburg Middle School as part of our effort to improve the livability of Louisville through a robust tree canopy. The tree planting is part of an ongoing partnership with JCPS ... Continue reading →
Vegetable gardeners are closing up shop for winter but tree lovers are pulling out their shovels to kick off the planting season. TreesLouisville has a parking lot full of saplings that will help rebuild Louisville’s canopy. The four truckloads of ... Continue reading →
Many people look at a nice tree — one that is just starting to bud for spring and which, in the fall, turns brilliant yellow before the leaves drop to the ground in confetti of color. I look at a ... Continue reading →
