By Dan Buckler, DNR Urban Forest Assessment Specialist; Daniel.Buckler@wisconsin.gov or 608-445-4578

When your newly planted trees are getting comfortable in their new homes, you’ve pulled the splinters from your hands and you find yourself at a desk asking yourself, “What now?”, we have an answer for you.

Please take a moment and record your trees in the Wisconsin Tree Planting Survey. Those submissions will then appear on the Tree Planting Map and be tallied toward the state’s pledge to the Trillion Trees Initiative. Governor Tony Evers signed the pledge to protect and restore Wisconsin’s rural and urban forests by planting 100 million trees in Wisconsin by 2030.

While the DNR may be able to track the ultimate destination of seedlings grown at the state nursery, or trees which have been funded by DNR Urban Forestry grants, there are so many others planted across Wisconsin that go undocumented. The planting map was designed to help fill that void and ensure that those trees are accounted for in our tallies.

So please, whether you planted one tree or a thousand, take a minute to submit your information through an easy-to-use survey.

If you have any questions about the Trillion Trees pledge, or wish to tap into that initiative, please reach out to the DNR’s new coordinator for the program, Bobbie Webster (Bobbie.Webster@wisconsin.gov). Bobbie will help administer the program and coordinate efforts to plant trees and conserve forestland across Wisconsin.