Four years ago, Mississippi Park Connection pledged to plant 15,000 trees to address devastating gaps in the forest canopy caused by Emerald Ash Borer. In 2020, we planned and planted the first climate-change adaptation experiment in an urban forest in America. This fall, we will reach our goal and plant the 15,000th tree!

Join Environmental Stewardship and Volunteer Manager Mary Hammes for a special fundraising event on Earth Day (April 22nd at 7:00 p.m.) where she will discuss successes from the campaign and introduce our project partners, Marcella Windmuller-Campione, a forestry professor at the University of Minnesota and Leslie Brandt, a climate scientist from the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and the U.S. Forest Service.

What have we learned over the past four years? What is next for the forest canopy? How will climate change impact our forests?

Make a gift to support this work and come away with hope for the future of our urban forest canopy.