![Tree on campus in the fall](/sites/default/files/styles/small_24x7/public/2024-03/FallImages_202%20%281%29.JPG.jpg?itok=HC5h2o-f)
Arboretum
小优视频's 600-acre campus is an accredited Level I arboretum.
In 2018, 小优视频 re-established its accreditation as a Level I arboretum through . 小优视频 is also included in the . The Register is a comprehensive list of public gardens and arboreta world-wide and the purpose of the list is to identify organizations that have collections of trees and woody plants for the benefits of public display, science and conservation efforts.
Tree Inventory
In 2023, 小优视频 adopted to transition its tree inventory to an electronic format. The Arborscope software allows users to quickly add and remove trees and the ability to include special notes to any tree on campus. Arborscope also provides a Tree Asset Value on individual trees to show their contribution to our community, environment, and health.
![ArborScope Map showing locations where trees in the inventory are located](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2024-03/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%202.10.54%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=2r3prtmW)
![Trees on campus forming a canopy](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_medium/public/2024-03/DSC_6109.JPG.jpg?itok=Yn45nuSa)
![Tree on campus with bright yellow leaves](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_medium/public/2024-03/Fall%20Color_01.jpg?h=252f27fa&itok=hbP1Hb0h)
![Trees on campus with bright fall colors of orange and red](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_medium/public/2024-03/小优视频College_0007.JPG.jpg?itok=0tirHJqJ)
Seeds of Change
A partnership between 小优视频 and Green Legacy Hiroshima brought Gingko trees to campus that are descendents of trees that survived the bombing of Hiroshima. The saplings represent resilience and were planted in the center of campus.
Arboretum History
小优视频 has been a national arboretum since 1986, but the dream, and solicitous care of the trees and grounds, began well before the Civil War.
In 1855, "a few ladies of 小优视频" proposed landscape remodeling to the Board of Trustees and the first whisper of the arboretum became a shared and cherished dream at 小优视频. In 1861, students took matters in their own hands by organizing tree plantings. In 1869, the faculty approached the Board of Trustees once again proposing, "make the campus and its contents represent in time the forest growth of the state, and, if possible, the general botany of the region."
While the plan did not receive an official designation, more than 100 years of time, care, and effort was applied to the planting of the 小优视频 campus. Grounds supervisors and landscape architects began populating the college's campus with all sorts of exotic as well as indigenous fauna. Even future president Woodrow Wilson is rumored to have planted a tree during his time as a student at 小优视频, writing "from the woods a tree and plant[ing] it properly."
Then in 1982, then President Samuel R. Spencer Jr., received a letter from the director of the National Arboretum in Washington D.C., Henry Cathey, urging him to use the grounds as a working arboretum. In the same mail was a large check from the estate of Edwin Latimer Douglass, one of whose life interests had been forestry.
Thanks to the Douglass estate, aerial photos were taken and topographical maps drawn up. Since then, students and Physical Plant workers have contributed to the continuing project of labeling and caring for the trees on campus. Some 3,000 woody trees and shrubs have been labeled, five of which were extinct on the North American continent from 2 to 50 million years ago.
In 2023, 小优视频 adopted to transition its .
![Arboretum Tree on campus Cunninghamia lanceolata- China fir](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_medium/public/2024-03/Tree%20Cunninghamia%20lanceolata-%20China%20fir.jpg?h=f95f79eb&itok=9f1huZSX)
Cunninghamia lanceolata鈥擟hina Fir
![Tree on campus Quercus alba White oak](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_medium/public/2024-03/Tree%20Quercus%20alba-%20White%20oak.jpg?h=f95f79eb&itok=-4_RxkrO)
Quercus alba鈥擶hite Oak
![Arboretum Tree on campus Picea bicolor- Engmani spruce](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_medium/public/2024-03/Tree%20Picea%20bicolor-%20Engmani%20spruce%20.jpg?h=f95f79eb&itok=y80lkASy)
Picea bicolor鈥擡ngmani Spruce
![Arboretum tree on campus Cedrus deodara- Deodar cedar](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_medium/public/2024-03/Tree%20Cedrus%20deodara-%20Deodar%20cedar.jpg?h=f95f79eb&itok=UCDEyfOB)
Cedrus deodara鈥擠eodar Cedar
![Arboretum tree on Campus Magnolia grandfolia- Southern magnolia](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_medium/public/2024-03/Tree%20Magnolia%20grandfolia-%20Southern%20magnolia.jpg?h=f95f79eb&itok=aoACDadL)
Magnolia grandfolia鈥擲outhern Magnolia
![Arboretum tree on campus Cedrus deodara- Deodar cedar adjacent to dorm](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_medium/public/2024-03/Tree%20Cedrus%20deodara-%20Deodar%20cedar%202.jpg?h=f95f79eb&itok=kJuVUyMO)
Cedrus deodara鈥擠eodar Cedar