Nationally Accredited Arboretum

With over 5,000 trees from 235 different species, The University of New Mexico is accredited through ArbNet as a Level I Arboretum. Open-grown trees, shrubs, and turfgrasses are on public display around campus for educational and recreational purposes. The campus landscape also provides many environmental benefits, such as sequestering of CO2, stormwater runoff abatement, increasing air, soil and water quality, shading of surfaces to reduce radiant energy absorption, cooling of the atmosphere via transpiration, and by reducing wind speed and infiltration into interior spaces, among others. ArbNet is an interactive, collaborative, international community of arboreta. The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program is the only global initiative to officially recognize arboreta based on a set of professional standards.

 

Arboretum Tours (coming soon)

Tree Campus Higher Education

In 2024, UNM earned the Tree Campus for Higher Education Designation from the Arbor Day Foundation. This award recognizes higher education campuses that are dedicated to enhancing community wellbeing through tree education, investment, and community engagement and meet five core standards: the establishment of a Campus Tree Advisory Committee, the implementation of a Campus Tree Care Plan, an annual expenditure dedicated to tree maintenance, an Arbor Day observance, and the completion of a service-learning project.

Campus Tree Care Plan

The Campus Tree Care Plan provides guidelines to establish, protect, maintain, and remove trees on the UNM Campus. The Tree Care Plan is a resource for campus staff and contractors to reference when planning and implementing activities that may impact UNM trees and establishes how trees must be protected from campus activities such as excavation, construction, and student and public events. The Tree Care Plan is overseen by the Campus Tree Care & Arboretum Advisory Committee.

Tree Inventory

You can access the UNM tree inventory for main campus and parts of north campus to explore the campus’s trees.