Campus Community

The Buffalo State University Sustainability Committee invites the campus community to attend Buffalo State's annual Arbor Day Tree-Planting Ceremony on Arbor Day, Friday, April 24, at 11:00 am on the east side of Cassety Hall near Cleveland Circle. This event will feature speakers whose topics will include the significance of Arbor Day, how urban trees are important for ecological systems, how the Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum has become an important campus outdoor classroom, and an update on the current condition and future of the arboretum.

An American Sweet Gum (Liquidambar styriciflua) will be added to the over 1,400 trees in the Buffalo State University’s Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum. This tree is native to New York State; however, it is much more common in the southeastern United States.  This tree is important to commerce as it is used for lumber, resins, and turpentine.  The Native Americans would use its sap to make chewing gum. 

Thank you to the GAC  for funding the tree and supplies, and to the volunteers who helped plant the tree.

Please contact campus arborist Steven Sypniewski for more information