Plant A Million is an exciting project to help make Central Indiana a more beautiful, healthful and better place to live, work and play. It is an effort to increase the tree canopy cover and help provide residents with the understanding of proper long-term stewardship of trees. In urban settings, many trees are aged and are not being replaced. Often the only trees in many neighborhoods are undesirable species that are weak, short-lived, and of no value as wildlife habitat. In rural areas, large subdivisions have taken the place of cornfields where no pre-construction trees existed and little is done to provide for consistent planting of desirable species once homes are built. Timber production in our woodlands requires proper management and planting of new forests to maintain Indiana’s role as a leading producer of fine hardwoods. Plant A Million has two basic objectives.

1. To help people understand the benefits of trees and their management.

2. To help people plant a million or more mostly native trees in Central Indiana.

Plant A Million is a joint effort of the ten Soil and Water Conservation Districts (Boone, Brown, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, and Shelby) in Central Indiana and the Hoosier Heartland Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc.