Let's Plant ABQ
Let’s Plant ABQ is a unified campaign to broadly support Mayor Tim Keller’s initiative to plant 100,000 trees.
Lets Plant Initiative
Tell us where you planted a tree
The Let’s Plant Albuquerque initiative is a broad community alliance that aims to plant 100,000 trees by 2030 to provide one tree for every child, as a gift from one generation to the next. Building Albuquerque’s urban canopy will take everyone in our city coming together to create a greener, cooler community for us all.
The alliance represents a broad range of civic, government, and community organizations dedicated to this goal. The initiative brings together
- Tree New Mexico,
- the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority (ABCWUA),
- New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service,
- the Dakota Tree Project,
- New Mexico State Forestry Division,
- and the City of Albuquerque Parks and Recreation Department.
Each organization works on tree planting and outreach projects, and are joining forces to make their collaborative efforts more effective.
To track these trees, the Urban Forestry Division uses software for inventorying, planning, and growing our urban canopy. Our data aids in informed decision making for urban designs, future developments,and preserving and enhancing our urban forest. Through collaboration, we were able to obtain all projects that have come through development review services and building permit since 2018, when our initiative was started. From these files we are able to track trees planted on private developments. This allows us to count trees on private developments towards our goal and gives us insight into planting trends among developers. We feel that our data tracking is unprecedented.
Find out what kind of trees you see planted in Albuqueque
The aim of this initiative is to plant more trees, but also to build community involvement. To find out how you can get involved, take the pledge to plant and reach out to [email protected]
