Tree City USA is a national program from the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the US Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters. The program has been greening cities and towns across the United States since 1976.

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Tree City Communities

The state of Hawaiʻi has been proudly participating in the program since the first year with our first community, Maui joining in 1976. Today, Hawaiʻi boosts ten Tree City USAs. We continue to grow and are happy to welcome new communities each year. The program provides the framework necessary for communities to manage and expand their public trees. 

Maui, 1976 Maui is our longest running Tree City USA community.  City and County of Honolulu, 1980 Joint Base Pearl Harbor/Hickam, 1998  Schofield Barracks, 2008  Aliamanu Military Reservation, 2011  Helemano Military Reservation, 2011  Fort Shafter, 2011  Wheeler Army Airfield, 2011 Arbor Day Celebration at Wheeler Army Airfield in 2017  Mililani Town, 2018 2018 Tree City USA celebration for Mililani Town  Ohana Military Communities, Navy 2018 Ohana Military Communities, MCBH 2020 Welcoming Ohana Military Communities to the Tree City USA Program in 2018

Tree Campus Communities

The Tree Campus Higher Education program is also from the Arbor Day Foundation and allows colleges and universities join the national program! This program helps them establish and sustain healthy community forests. Tree Campus are required to meet the same standards as Tree City USA communities with an additional Service Learning Project aimed at engaging the student body. 

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2008 The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was honored with the 2019 Tree Campus USA® recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management Windward Community College, 2019

Kapiʻolani Community College, 2019