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Jeff Culbertson, assistant director of landscape services, shovels dirt around the root ball of an Engelman spruce during an Arbor Day observance in 2017 on East Campus.

Arbor Day activities feature tree plantings, live broadcasts

April 23, 2018

Tree damage around Architecture Hall following the October 1997 snowstorm.

Tree celebration to focus on 20th anniversary of October snowstorm

October 9, 2017

Tyler Reedier hangs out among the trees between Canfield Administration Building and Andrews Hall in spring 2016. The university is creating an area for hammocks by Broyhill Fountain.

Hammocks coming to new Husker hangout

September 14, 2017

Mandela Washington Fellows plant a London Planetree on East Campus during a July 18 International Nelson Mandela Day ceremony.

Fellows, Landscape Services celebrate Mandela Day

July 18, 2017

Capt. John Backer of the University Police Department (fourth from left) discusses lighting and landscaping improvements made to increase visibility on the plaza north of Love Library. The discussion was part of the university annual campus safety walk, w

University employs environmental design to create a safer campus

May 3, 2017

Bud Dasenbrock shovels dirt around the roots of the newly planted Engelmann spruce tree as other Arbor Day celebration participants look on.

Arbor Day planting expands arboretum

April 28, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

Having a heart: University hosts sculptures celebrating state's 150th

March 1, 2017

A giant snowdrop blooms in the gardens on the south side of Love Library. The perennial is one earliest spring flowering bulbs. It is native to Turkey, Macedonia, Bulgaria, southern Ukraine and northeastern Greece.

Is spring springing early in Nebraska?

February 14, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

Students in Kim Todd's landscape design class plant trees on East Campus in November. The class works closely with Landscape Services on planting projects around campus.

Students gain experience while caring for university landscape

January 9, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is launching a plan to protect campus trees prior to the arrival of Emerald Ash Borer. The plan will protect about 10 percent of campus ash trees, including this blue ash on East Campus.

University outlines plan to protect ash trees

December 20, 2016

Tim Herron, a landscape assistant with landscape services, mulches leaves into the grass on the east side of Sheldon Museum of Art on Nov. 8. The university recently expanded it's sustainability practices by partnering with Big Red Worms on leaf recycling.

Repurposing campus leaves helps expand sustainability

November 9, 2016

Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for Sept. 30

September 30, 2016