Since 1976, Up With Trees has been faithful to its mission to beautify greater Tulsa by planting trees and creating urban forestry awareness through education.

In the spring of 2019, Enbridge sponsored an Up With Trees highway project, donating $5,000 for a tree-planting initiative along Tulsa’s highway I-244. Enbridge employees participated in the planting process as part of the Our Community Partners volunteer program.

Up With Trees not only plants, but maintains, more than 20,000 trees throughout greater Tulsa. The organization works to ensure that trees are pruned, watered, and replaced if severely damaged, ensuring that the trees will continue to thrive for many years to come.

Up With Trees plants along streets and trails, in parks, schools, fire stations, neighborhoods and numerous public properties.

Education is an equally important mandate of the organization. “We’re trying to nurture the next generation in the same way we nurture our trees,” says director of community outreach Shawn Davis. “As the future sustainable stewards of our community, it’s important they understand the impact that trees have on our ecosystem.”

As more research has come out over the years, we really have started to realize the holistic impact trees have on our community," says Davis.

There are over 750 sites in the Tulsa, OK area sporting the acclaimed wooden sign indicating the mark of Up With Trees. The organization uses wooden signs, among other reasons, because wood is a renewable resource, the signs are locally manufactured by Up With Trees volunteers, and are less expensive to replace.

In 2018, Up With Trees educated over 2,500 Tulsa-area students both in and outside of the classroom.

Determining the next location for tree planting is a calculated and strategic process for Up With Trees. Careful assessments are done to identify priority areas in the city and community of Tulsa.

With such care and attention given to each tree, Shawn Davis says the excitement is undeniable knowing the tree is going to survive. “The area is forever changed once a tree is planted there,” she says. “Whether it’s a five-tree or 100-tree planting project, we know we’re making the city of Tulsa a healthier one.”

Education is one of the most important parts of Up With Trees, which strives to educate as many as possible about the importance of keeping Tulsa green. The organization does this through our volunteer base and through our strong Citizen Foresters program.