{"id":245480,"date":"2026-04-24T23:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:46:17","slug":"cape-coral-celebrates-arbor-day-by-planting-over-300-new-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245480\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral celebrates Arbor Day by planting over 300 new trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&gt;&gt; IT&#8217;S ARBOR DAY, A DAY DEDICATED TO PLANTING AND CELEBRATING THE TREES THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY SO BEAUTIFUL TONIGHT IN POSITIVELY GULF COAST. CAPE CORAL IS MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT MISSION JUST HOURS AGO. LOOK AT THIS. THE CITY PLANS AND MORE THAN 300 NEW TREES AT CRYSTAL LAKE PARK. THE CITY SAYS IT&#8217;S THANKS TO A DONATION FROM THE FLORIDA FOREST SERVICE GULF COAST NEWS WAS THERE AS THE NEW TREES WENT IN THE GROUND. &gt;&gt; IT MEANS A LOT TO HAVE FOLKS TAKE TAKE THAT INITIATIVE AND YOU KNOW, REALLY TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR CITY. &gt;&gt; THE CITY THANKS THE FOREST SERVICE FOR TH\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral celebrates Arbor Day by planting over 300 new trees<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gcnn.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"Gulf Coast News logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 7:01 PM EDT Apr 24, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCape Coral celebrated Arbor Day by planting more than 300 trees at Crystal Lake Park, thanks to a donation from the Florida Forest Service and the efforts of volunteers.  \u201cIt means a lot to have folks take that initiative and take pride in their city,\u201d city arborist Omar Leon said.  The city expressed its appreciation to the Florida Forest Service for the donation and to the volunteers who helped with the tree planting.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral celebrated Arbor Day by planting more than 300 trees at Crystal Lake Park, thanks to a donation from the Florida Forest Service and the efforts of volunteers.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot to have folks take that initiative and take pride in their city,\u201d city arborist Omar Leon said.  <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/14bFLeXw4yo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">city expressed its appreciation<\/a> to the Florida Forest Service for the donation and to the volunteers who helped with the tree planting.<\/p>\n<p>DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&gt;&gt; IT&#8217;S ARBOR DAY, A DAY DEDICATED TO PLANTING AND CELEBRATING THE TREES THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY SO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1185,105054,209,211,210,187,104824,14059,104,28,35099,1179,43668,213,108042,197,13935,7194,12026,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-245480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-alert","9":"tag-arbor-day","10":"tag-cape-coral","11":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","12":"tag-cape-coral-news","13":"tag-city","14":"tag-crystal-lake-park","15":"tag-donation","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-florida","18":"tag-florida-forest-service","19":"tag-gulf-coast-news-app","20":"tag-initiative","21":"tag-late-news","22":"tag-new-tree","23":"tag-sport","24":"tag-trees","25":"tag-volunteer","26":"tag-volunteers","27":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}