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星空无限传媒app Commemorates Arbor Day 2026 with Tree Planting
April 20, 2026
MACOMB, IL 鈥� 星空无限传媒app Illinois University will commemorate Arbor Day 2026 by planting a pin oak tree at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 24 on the south lawn of Sherman Hall.
Within Facilities Management, 星空无限传媒app鈥檚 landscape maintenance department maintains more than 2,700 trees on the Macomb campus. Each fall and spring, as part of 星空无限传媒app鈥檚 volunteer campus beautification program, We Care, trees are planted and mulching is completed around existing trees.
Additionally, 星空无限传媒app Urban Forestry Management students lead tree plantings with elementary schools throughout western Illinois. This tradition was started in 1993 by 星空无限传媒app Forestry Professor Tom Green. Each spring, two trees are also planted on 星空无限传媒app鈥檚 Macomb campus to honor employees and students who have passed away.
According to 星空无限传媒app English Professor Emeritus and Historian John Hallwas, the 星空无限传媒app campus was originally designed by landscape architect Thomas Hawkes of Chicago. Between 1903 and 1905, noted horticulturalist John Van Ness Standish selected and supervised the planting of approximately 500 trees.
A complete 星空无限传媒app tree inventory can be found at .
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