{"id":334309,"date":"2026-07-09T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334309\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:13:11","slug":"k-bar-ranch-getting-3500-new-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334309\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Bar Ranch Getting 3,500 New Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major Tree Planting Effort in New Tampa<\/p>\n

Mayor Jane Castor’s goal of 30,000 trees planted by 2030 in the City of Tampa takes a giant step forward this week when 3,500 oak saplings will be planted in New Tampa’s K-Bar Ranch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Combined with a December planting of 6,800 saplings (mostly pine), K-Bar alone will be at 10,300 new trees planted.<\/p>\n

Citywide, since the goal of 30,000 new trees was announced in April 2023, the City has reached 16,838 plantings.<\/p>\n

“The 56-acre site is bursting with potential, and the addition of these oaks means we’ll be building a great park with shade already taking root,” Mayor Jane Castor said. “Tampa is proud of its tree canopy, and we’ll continue to grow it in our drive for environmental resiliency.”<\/p>\n

This planting includes 1,800 live oak (Quercus virginiana) and 1,700 sand live oak (Quercus geminata), all grown in liner pots. These will be planted by Parks & Recreation staff, Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful volunteers, and the Green Team.<\/p>\n

In addition to tree plantings such as this one, Tampa supports its tree canopy with the annual Mayor’s Tree Giveaway, held each spring, and Tree-Mendous Tampa<\/a>, a year-round program that allows city residents and neighborhood associations to request that a tree be planted in a yard or a right of way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major Tree Planting Effort in New Tampa Mayor Jane Castor’s goal of 30,000 trees planted by 2030 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-334309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334309","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=334309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}