Improve your community and help create a greener future by taking action to plant, protect, and care for trees.
Everywhere the Arboretum’s Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI) works, we depend on the collaboration of volunteers and local residents as well as professionals and partners. With your help, we can improve the health, diversity, and equitable distribution of trees in the Chicago region and throughout Illinois.
Everyone can make a difference for the regional forest.
Help CRTI partners at tree plantings and other events.
Train as a volunteer to improve the regional forest and attend quarterly networking gatherings.
Speak up for trees and green space in your community.
Use the Canopy Counts app to track trees across the region.
Get expert advice on choosing and maintaining trees.
Donate to support a healthy, sustainable, equitable Chicago region forest.
Partners are governments, organizations, agencies, associations, individuals, landowners, and land managers who work with CRTI to support and improve the health of the region’s trees.
CRTI’s work groups address gaps in the care of the Chicago region’s urban forest, focusing on specific areas such as tree planting, stewardship, research, education, policy, skill and training development, and resource needs.
In partnership with the City of Chicago’s Department of Public Health, CRTI provides community groups in Chicago with training, resources, and funding to enrich the urban canopy and build a community of tree advocates.
