STARKVILLE — Mississippi State’s landscape team has planted more than 2,000 trees over the past five years, strengthening the university’s canopy and advancing its current strategic effort to optimize the university’s outdoor environment.

From majestic native hardwoods to decorative flowering species, the varied tree plantings are creating and enhancing shaded spaces for students, faculty and visitors on the campus recognized for 12 consecutive years as a Tree Campus Higher Education institution.

“With every tree we plant, we’re thinking 20, 30, even 50 years into the future,” said Saunders Ramsey, executive director of Campus Services. “It’s about creating a landscape now that future generations of Bulldogs can also enjoy—places to walk, study, gather and connect with nature.”

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