Celebrating Arbor Day with tree planting at EOU
Celebrating Arbor Day with tree planting at EOU
May 6, 2022
LA GRANDE, Ore. –Arbor Day 2022 is in the books, marking the continuation of Eastern Oregon University as a Tree Campus USA, along with the addition of some brand-new healthy trees thanks to the EOU football team.
On April 29, 15 EOU student-athletes took part in a tree planting event as part of Tree Campus USA.
“It’s always the kids, it’s always the students… And of course, we’re achieving something as well. We’re getting trees in the ground and getting them in properly. But they make it quite fun,” Campus Arborist David Yoder said.
The students planted eight trees on the grounds of the Integrated Service Building (ISB) on Gekeler Lane in La Grande.
“We simply put in some Juniperus scopulorum, Rocky Mountain Juniper skyrockets. Those will become like soldiers around the perimeter. They’ll get 25 feet tall and eight feet in diameter,” Yoder said.
EOU students have been assisting in volunteer Arbor Day activities since 2015, with the football team taking the lead in tree planting events in recent years.
约德说:“在过去几年里，蒂姆·坎普教练和他的足球队领导们种树，给了我们很大的帮助。”“他们很棒，我们只是监督和指导。我们会检查工作，确保它是正确的，但坎普教练，he really enjoys it…and it’s been a lot of fun,”
The tree planting is one of multiple events done as part of EOU’s status as a Tree Campus USA/Higher Ed. EOU first started working toward Tree Campus USA in 2014, was officially recognized in 2016 and has since maintained that status.
“The [Oregon Department of Urban Forestry] in conjunction with Arbor Day Foundation developed a plan for universities called ‘Tree Campus USA,’ and that’s to bring awareness of urban forestry and the value of trees to a community,” Yoder said.
作为美国树木校园的一部分，EOU维持着一个树木咨询委员会，由一名设施管理员、校园树木管理员、一名教师、a student and another off-campus arborist or community member at large.
“We have several meetings a year with the committee, and so now we’re even planning for next year. The committee reviews the campus arbor and talks about planting and activities. It really is student involved.”
The committee will meet in October to discuss future Tree Campus USA, Arbor Day, and other tree planting events.
For more information about Tree Campus USA, visiteou.edu/facplan/tree-campus. For more information about this and other on-campus events this month, visiteou.edu/may.
Written by PR Intern Garrett Christensen
