{"id":247,"date":"2025-11-25T23:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impact.nwf.org\/2025\/stories\/tennessee-environmental-council-plants-40000-trees\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:53:50","slug":"tennessee-environmental-council-plants-40000-trees","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/impact.nwf.org\/2025\/stories\/tennessee-environmental-council-plants-40000-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Environmental Council Plants 40,000 Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\">TEC\u2019s 11th annual statewide Tennessee Tree Day native tree planting event was made possible with support from 160+ pick-up site leaders (volunteers and partner organizations), 9 regional hubs (where pick-up leaders pick up their bundles), and more than 7,000 participants and their friends and family who all gathered to pick up and plant their trees. This year\u2019s tree totals include 75,000 reserved by participants to plant at their homes, and 101,000 total number of seedlings planted across the state (40,000 supported by Trees for Wildlife). Species planted: American beautyberry, black cherry, eastern red cedar, eastern redbud, American elderberry, flowering dogwood, mockernut hickory, pecan, persimmon, tulip poplar, red mulberry, shagbark hickory, white oak, wild plum. Learn more about NWF\u2019s Trees for Wildlife <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nwf.org\/2025\/08\/having-our-trees-and-planting-them-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">program impact<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><em>Photo Credit: Jeffrey Barrie<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEC\u2019s 11th annual statewide Tennessee Tree Day native tree planting event was made possible with support from 160+ pick-up site leaders (volunteers and partner organizations), 9 regional hubs (where pick-up leaders pick up their bundles), and more than 7,000 participants and their friends and family who all gathered to pick up and plant their trees. 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