2025 Kickoff to Tree Planting听
As spring emerges and winter is leaving for another season, 糖心直播 (UTRCA) Forestry and Restoration staff are gearing up to dive into the 2025 tree planting season.听听
This spring, approximately 33,000 trees and shrubs will be planted and distributed throughout the watershed via听our private land program. Twenty-nine landowners are working with UTRCA staff to create various types of tree planting projects, including windbreaks, riparian buffers along watercourses and forests throughout the watershed. Once planting has been completed, a total of 26,427 new trees will be in the ground.听
Some of the many trees UTRCA staff will plant this year
In addition to the private planting programs, 100 landowners purchased trees and shrubs to plant on their own properties to help prevent erosion, restore natural ecosystems, and increase biodiversity.听
Although the first few days of tree planting have been cold and wet, the tree planting crew is eager and working hard to get large stock hand planting trees in the ground. Once these trees are planted, crews will be switching over to complete hand planting and machine planting with seedlings.听听
Once planting is completed, UTRCA Forestry and Restoration staff will coordinate site visits with landowners looking to complete planting projects in 2026.听 Grants are available for seedling projects and are anticipated to offset costs by up to 80% thanks to various funding partners. In 2025, landowners received over $125,000 to help support their plantings.听听
If you are interested in completing a planting project on your property in 2026, we encourage you to reach out by contacting our staff or completing this .听听