Eileen Bergt, director of Landscape Services and campus Landscape Architect quotes Dr. Suess: "I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping down as fast as you please..."

Robert Smith, the Director of the Nebraska Arborist
Association talks about hands on experience with trees.

Associate Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Architect Kim Todd urges everyone to plant trees.

Mark Lagrimini, Chairman of UNL's Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, speaks of the connection between growing
trees and growing food in a sustainable manner.

Wilbur "Bud" Dasenbrock, former Director of Landscape Services and member of the Friends of Maxwell Arboretum, reminds us of the history of planting trees in Nebraska and tells of the trees of his childhood during the depression.

Sue Kohles, Therapeutic Horticulture Specialist/Special Projects
 Coordinator at the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum reads a poem in honor of trees.

Landscape Services East Campus Manager Jeff Culbertson leads the tree planting.