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Hanging tree tag

Marquee trees debut in Davis this May

  • by Katie Ferguson Hetrick
Coming soon to a tree near you — oversized hang tags promoting the importance of trees — thanks to a collaboration between the City of Davis Tree Commission, Tree Davis, the California Center for Urban Horticulture and the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden.
Hanging tree tag

Students tag trees, raise Earth Day awareness

In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, interns participating in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden’s Learning by Leading Museum Education program will be tying large tags around 50 trees throughout campus and the Arboretum.
Students on the Learning by Leading Waterway Stewardship team plant sedges and rushes along the newly created banks of the Arboretum Waterway.

Waterway edge habitat provides ecosystem benefits

To provide multiple ecosystem benefits, students on our Learning by Leading Waterway Stewardship team are creating riparian (water edge) habitats around the newly constructed weirs throughout Phase One of the Arboretum Waterway Maintenance and Enhancement Project.
Levy Hernandez and Emily Griswold

Consider a 2017 year-end gift to support our Learning by Leading program

Your support for the Learning by Leading program helps us develop the environmental stewards of tomorrow. Also, ten percent of your gift to the Arboretum and Public Garden Annual Fund goes to the Friends of the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden Endowment which provides long-term support for our free, all-ages environmental education programs.

Arboretum Interns Support Native American Traditions, Restoration

UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery personnel hosted a group of high school students participating in the Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC) Youth Leadership Summit. These students, with connections to Native American tribes in California, Nevada, Hawaii and New Mexico, learned how to grow culturally important plants for a large-scale environmental restoration project on Maidu land in Plumas County.
Students harvest Good Life Garden for donation to The Pantry

Students harvest Good Life Garden for donation to The Pantry

On Monday, January 9, 2017, students in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden’s Learning by Leading Edible Landscaping Internship picked fruits and vegetables grown in the UC Davis Good Life Garden, but this was not just any run-of-the-mill harvest. It was the first time produce grown here could be donated to The Pantry – a student-run organization that works to ensure no student ever has to miss a meal or go without necessities for financial reasons.

Kathy Guertze poses with a Gingko tree

Kathy Guertze

Sustainable Horticulture Co-Coordinator, 2015-16, Nursery Intern, 2016, Sustainable Horticulture Intern, 2015
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