Trees Atlanta

The Great Southeast Pollinator Census is a community science project created by the University of Georgia, and is now in its 6th year of operation with thousands of participants from multiple states of the southeast US. To highlight this fun (and scientifically important) census, ecosystem experts from Great South East Pollinator Census, EcoLogic, and Woodskeeper […]

Celebrate the 2023 Great Southeast Pollinator Census with The Happy Black Parent and Trees Atlanta. Make a difference for pollinator conservation. Meet us at the Trees Atlanta Kendeda TreeHouse for pollinator-themed stories and activities, then we'll walk to the adjacent Atlanta BeltLine Arboretum to count pollinators together. About the Great Southeast Pollinator Census: The Great […]

Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) leads this episode of Ask the Expert. Our speaker, GFC Community Forester and tree advocate, Lea Clark knows Georgia forests. Her focus is on providing support for cities, counties, and tree advocacy groups to improve the urban tree canopy. Lea will address the importance of soil quality, as well as the […]

Has the tree coverage changed since the first canopy assessment in 2008? Yes, it has. The latest tree canopy coverage data for the city of Atlanta has been published. Join us at the Trees Atlanta Kendeda TreeHouse as Georgia Tech professor and study author Tony Giarrusso walks us through the latest data for the Atlanta […]

On the brink of extinction, the history and recovery of the American chestnut is told in this documentary. Notable appearances from Jimmy Carter, Dolly Parton, and others help to tell this heroic story. This film screening of Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut will include a light reception and audience Q&A. The Atlanta screening […]

Planting trees and pollinating plants here in Atlanta can help endangered butterflies over 2000 miles away. Victoria Beeler and her family raise Monarch butterflies from eggs to caterpillars to chrysalis and finally to emerging butterflies. The butterflies are released into the wild to migrate–all from an outdoor butterfly garden habitat built right at home. Local […]

Our neighbors are coming together for an educational storytime and craft focused on all of the ways that trees are helpful to us and the animals around us. Join us as we read What Good is a Tree? by Larry Dane Brimner. About the Book: When a boy wonders, "What good is a tree?" he […]

Sam Landes of the Mushroom Club of Georgia leads an informative and fun mushroom foraging walk at the Lake Charlotte Nature Preserve, a 216-acre rustic woodland that’s home to shagbark hickories, white oaks and several towering beech trees in a forest park along the South River.  Centered on the now-drained Lake Charlotte, the preserve is one of […]