{"id":153138,"date":"2026-02-06T03:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153138\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:08:16","slug":"nonprofit-trees-for-houston-plants-its-millionth-tree-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153138\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit Trees for Houston plants its millionth tree \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since its founding in 1983, the area nonprofit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.treesforhouston.org\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trees for Houston<\/a> has had a simple mission: to plant, protect, and promote trees. This morning, the organization celebrated the planting of its millionth tree in the Houston metro area.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>In the video and audio above, Houston Matters producer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/staff\/josh-zinn\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joshua Zinn<\/a> visits the celebration and tree planting at the Kellum-Noble House near <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/texastimetravel.com\/directory\/heritage-society-sam-houston-park\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sam Houston Park<\/a> where he talked with Bary Ward, the executive director of Trees for Houston, about the organization\u2019s work for the environment and beautification across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Many Houston Public Media listeners and viewers will recognize Ward and Trees for Houston for their partnership with the station during radio fundraising campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-542695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trees-for-Houston-tree-planting-1000x673.jpg\" alt=\"Trees for Houston volunteers plant a tree.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"673\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Trees for Houston volunteers plant a tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since its founding in 1983, the area nonprofit Trees for Houston has had a simple mission: to plant,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24282,2327,56,58,4978,57,63361,66,223,8225,4979,9010,24281],"class_list":["post-153138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-barry-ward","tag-environment","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-joshua-zinn","tag-local","tag-news","tag-sam-houston-park","tag-shows","tag-trees","tag-trees-for-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}