Help Save Our Tree Canopy
Taking Root inspires and empowers all to conserve and improve our region’s unique and threatened tree canopy
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Take Action for Trees in Our Region
Why take action?
Our trees are under siege
- Emerging threats are shrinking our tree canopy, diminishing native species and impeding forest regeneration.
- Our region’s tree loss will have long-term impacts on our communities, natural resources and pocketbooks.
- Individual and collaborative actions are critical for combatting tree threats and reversing or offsetting tree loss.
Benefits of trees and forests
- Positively affect human health, emotional well-being and social behavior
- Enrich our communities, save energy and increase property values
- Protect environmental resources we depend on
What can you do to offset the many threats to our trees?
Collaborative Projects & Events
Include tree-planting in your next community service event … use Earth Day, public events and special occasions to spread awareness of tree benefits and needs … contact Taking Root for help with your projects and plans.
Tree for Me
For communities selected each spring and fall, homeowners can receive a free tree and use a customized online mapping program to determine where to plant their tree for the greatest energy savings.
Make a Difference Day (MaDD)
Organize a tree-planting event this October for your organization or community by contacting the MaDD team for information on fund-raising, its annual tree sale and other help.
Mini-grants
Tree-planting projects in need of financial or manpower assistance can submit an online application if projects are “shovel-ready” and community-based (may involve street trees, schools, nonprofits, parks, churches, public campuses).
Taking Root Partners
Your business, organization or community can become a Taking Root Partner that provides services or resources to our mission.
RegisTree
Make your newly planted tree(s) count toward Taking Root’s goal of 2 million new trees — one for everyone in the region! Total number of trees planted is updated periodically.
Trees Planted
Plan your Tree Planting with OKI’s Tree for Me Tool
Is your organization planning a tree distribution program? Do you want to know more about the benefits of trees?
OKI provides this tool as a platform to various organizations for the purpose of distributing trees. Contact Travis Miller for more information.
Upcoming Events
Tate Township, Clermont County
All trees are now taken —Free trees available through Taking Root
| Pickup is May 20, 2023
Free trees — Oak, Black Gum, or Redbud
All are non-Asian Longhorn Beetle host species
Exclusive for residents in Tate Township, Clermont County
CLOSED Register to receive your tree through the Tree for Me tool. There is a limited quantity of trees.
Pick-up your tree Saturday, May 20
10am-2pm
Grant Career Center
718 Plane Street
Bethel, Ohio 45106
Free trees made possible through Duke Energy grant.
Thanks to Natorp’s Nursery for your generous support.
April 29 & May 7, 2023
Volunteers needed for Tree Planting Days
| Christ the King Lutheran Church
Dec. 7, 2023
Taking Root Tree Professionals Seminar
Save the date!
Feb. 24, 2024
Great Tree Summit | 8:00am-noon
Save the date!
Individuals, communities, businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations are integral to improving our region’s unique and threatened tree canopy. Taking Root helps you take action.
The great green canopy that we have inherited from time immemorial is under siege. If we lose it, we are all diminished in ways now unimaginable. If we preserve it, we will have prevailed in a long and meaningful struggle. That’s what Taking Root is all about. That and ‘connectivity’ … working together.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Tree Care Tips
Help keep the trees we have!
Keep them free of climbing winter creeper and English ivy and mulch by the 3x3x3 rule — 3 inches of mulch 3 inches from the trunk in a circle at least 3 feet wide. More tree care tips
News, Impact & Events
Great Parks Poe-tree and Taking Root
Taking Root partnered with Great Parks, GROUNDWORK Ohio River Valley and Macy’s to plant trees at New Prospect Baptist Church on Sunday, April 2, 2023. The tree planting is part of an event called, “For the Love of Poe-Tree”. Everyone was invited to participate in the...
2023 Great Tree Summit 10th Anniversary
Celebrating a decade of Taking Root at the annual Great Tree Summit What a wonderful gathering of individuals, communities, and organizations who work towards a shared vision of planting new trees and preserving existing trees so that we all benefit from a healthy...
Tree for Me November Event
This November, Taking Root’s Tree for Me Program, with generous support from the Duke Energy Foundation, distributed about 50 trees to residents in the Cincinnati communities of Avondale, Bond Hill, Roselawn and Walnut Hills, and about 40 to residents in Florence,...
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