10/08/2026
Bridgeport to Celebrate Arbor Day with New Trees at East City Park
Thanks to the Trees for Nebraska Towns (TNT) program, the City of Bridgeport has received four new trees for its ReTree Bridgeport effort.
Three of the trees have already been planted in East City Park. The fourth will be planted during Bridgeport’s annual Arbor Day Celebration at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, October 8, 2026, at East City Park.
Fifth-grade students from Bridgeport Public Schools will take part in this year’s celebration, learning about the importance of the community forest and helping plant the new hackberry tree. Community members are also welcome and encouraged to attend.
The Bridgeport Tree Board actively pursues tree grants each year to help replace aging and lost trees and maintain a healthy community forest for future generations. Nebraska’s community forests face numerous challenges, including extreme weather, insects and disease, limited species diversity and the continuing spread of emerald ash borer.
The Trees for Nebraska Towns program helps communities address these challenges by providing free, high-quality trees for public projects and educational events. The program emphasizes large, maturing shade trees, diverse species, proper planting and long-term care. Increasing both the number and diversity of trees helps make community forests more resilient while providing environmental, economic and quality-of-life benefits.
The TNT program is an effort of the Nebraska Forest Service and Nebraska Statewide Arboretum and is supported by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum’s Trees for Nebraska Towns Initiative, funded by the Nebraska Environmental Trust.
Residents can find tree planting, care and watering information, including a how-to video on planting container trees, at cityofbport.com/tree-board.
More information about the Trees for Nebraska Towns program is available at plantnebraska.org.
