We are proud to work with the non-profit partners of: Texas Trees Foundation, the Lake Lewisville Aquatic Environmental Research Foundation, the Trust for Public Lands and others towards implementing the Dallas Urban Forest Initiative.

We are doing the following activities to implement our pledge:

Protecting about 14.7 million trees within the City of Dallas through implementation of a Tree Ordinance that requires tree protection, and payment to Reforestation Fund for removing protected trees larger than 8-inches in diameter. Ordinance can be found here.

Protecting the Great Trinity Forest, a 6,000-acre hardwood bottomland forest, protected through designation as a United States Army Corps of Engineers’ Mitigation Lands Area;

Implementing Branching Out Dallas to plant ~600 trees per year in Dallas Parks, and Branch Out Dallas to plant ~2,500 trees per year on private property as an effort to increase overall canopy in Dallas; together these program efforts will plant about 31,000 native Texas trees in 10 years.

Using funding from Reforestation fund, plant over 700 trees within in a 6-mile long area decimated by October 2019 tornado event; develop plan towards future storm damage reforestation efforts;

Implement Urban Forest Management Plan towards developing a cohesive plan to plant, protect, maintain, preserve and increase our Urban Canopy. The City’s Comprehensive Environmental & Climate Action Plan includes a goals of increasing canopy to 33 percent by 2030, and 40 percent by 2050; this is estimated to be about 250,000 trees.

Implement ongoing environmental outreach and education concerning importance of tree canopy towards meeting overall municipal environmental goals within the CECAP; training provided with planting includes, right tree, right place messaging.

Our efforts to conserve, restore and grow trees in support of worldwide 1 trillion trees by 2030, will be guided by the City’s Urban Forest Master Plan, to ensure coordinated sustained long-term stewardship and capacity.

Every effort to conserve, restore, or grow trees in and beyond the City of Dallas must be equitable, and both socially and ecologically responsible. We adhere to the principle of “right tree, right place” per the current City Tree Ordinance and strive to make sure that our forest conservation efforts include all communities and stakeholders.

The planning processes supporting the development of the City’s Tree Ordinance, Comprehensive Environmental & Climate Action Plan, and Urban Forest Master Plan benefited from robust, diverse, community engagement. We will continue to work with all Community stakeholders, in the implementation of the above pledged actions to ensure that we are planting equitably, consistent with technical