Update on Wisconsin’s “Trillion Trees Pledge”

Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), in celebration of Earth Day, Arbor Day, and Forest Appreciation Week, Tuesday (April 21) released Wisconsin’s Trillion Trees Pledge 2025 Annual Report. The report shows that Wisconsin planted nearly 12 million trees and conserved more than 7,800 acres of forestland in the state in 2025 as part of Wisconsin’s Trillion Trees Pledge, bringing the total number of trees planted since 2021 to over 54 million trees in just the first five years.

On Earth Day 2021, Gov. Evers signed Executive Order #112, joining the pledge and committing to plant 75 million new trees and conserve 125,000 acres of forest in Wisconsin by the end of 2030. On Earth Day in 2024, Gov. Evers signed Executive Order #221, increasing the state’s tree-planting goal to 100 million trees by the end of 2030. In just the fifth year of the state’s Trillion Trees Pledge, Wisconsin has already achieved over half, nearly 55 percent, of its tree-planting goal and almost 68 percent of its forest conservation goal. Wisconsin’s pledge is in collaboration with public, private, and non-governmental partners and focuses on planting, managing, and conserving forests and trees in both rural and urban areas throughout the state.

According to Wisconsin’s Trillion Trees Pledge 2025 Annual Report, of the nearly 12 million trees planted in 2025, the DNR supplied over 4.5 million of the seedlings planted, including nearly 2.3 million that were planted on private lands, nearly 1.7 million that were planted on DNR, federal, Tribal, and other public lands, over 544,000 that were planted in county forests, over 25,000 that were planted in school and community forests, and over 56,000 that were given to students last Arbor Day through the Arbor Day Free Seedlings for Fourth Graders program. More information about the Trillion Trees Pledge, Wisconsin’s Tree Planting Map, the list of partners, and the full report of 2025 accomplishments is available on the DNR’s website.