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Tree Campus USA
Tree Campus USA program recognizes college and university campuses that:
- Effectively manage their campus trees.
- Develop connectivity with the community beyond campus borders to foster healthy, urban forests.
- Strive to engage their student population utilizing service learning opportunities centered on campus, and community, forestry efforts.
Why The University of Redlands participates:
Trees benefit the environment, provide shade, protect us from the wind, and clean our air.
Campuses can benefit as well:
- A commitment to trees on your campus can, in turn, significantly reduce the amount of energy a campus, and community, needs to generate.
- Planting and maintaining trees on your campus and in the community reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere#—#which is one of the important roles that trees play.
- Green spaces give students and faculty the setting to relax with others, or on their own. What better way to study or take a break than by being outside.
- By meeting the annual standards and being recognized as a Tree Campus USA college, you will create a campus that not only benefits the environment but instills pride in the students, faculty, and community.