Tree City USA

Van Buren Tree City USA, sponsored by The National Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters, provides direction, technical assistance, public attention, and national recognition for urban community forestry programs in thousands of towns and cities that more then 93 million Americans call home.

OUR MISSION: We inspire people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees.

OUR VISION: We envision a world where trees and forest are abundant, healthy, and sustainable, and highly valued.

OUR GOALS: Build an organization of dedicated members who lead the way, and help individual citizens plant and care for trees to enrich the environment.

Enhance the extent, health, and care, of the urban and community forest where we live.

Advance rural land conservation and forest stewardship through the planting and care of trees.

Educate and inspire young people and adults to understand, plant, and care for trees to build a better future.

OUR METHOD: We constantly strive to utilize the resources available to use to have the greatest possible impact, to close the gap between what is known and what is practiced. To do that we positively influence organizations and institutions, which in turn have a big impact.

Whenever possible, we work through existing structures to achieve our objectives. Networks abound of organizations and individuals who care about trees. Whenever we can find a way, we create programs and educational tools for promoting through existing infrastructures.

VAN BUREN TREE CITY USA was recognized nationally in March of 2004