Grounds Dave Tippy News Today

SIU’s Office of Sustainability celebrates Arbor Day by planting more than a dozen trees on campus with volunteers.

The Forestry Department and the Tree Campus Higher Education Committee developed an arboretum scavenger hunt for SIU students on October 29th.Students will have a list of items to find and identify like certain leaf shapes.

SIU Tree Walk Organizers Finish Online Virtual Tree Walk The SIU Forestry Club and Tree Campus Higher Education Committee had to cancel their annual campus tree walk in the fall because of COVID-19. The tree campus committee has to provide a service learning event to maintain their tree campus designation. COVID-19 restrictions prevent them from bringing hundreds of kids to campus as they usually do, so they switched to a virtual tree walk. Superintendent of Grounds Dave Tippy says the commit...