{"id":579904,"date":"2026-04-12T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:48:09","slug":"river-arts-district-arbor-day-gives-away-900-trees-for-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579904\/","title":{"rendered":"River Arts District &#8216;Arbor Day&#8217; gives away 900 trees for planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 The City of Asheville, alongside the Urban Forestry Commission and Riverlink, celebrated Arbor Day in the River Arts District.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/pisgah-national-forest-cradle-forestry-reopens-2026-season-visitors-dock-dredge-historic-campus-discovery-center-fall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CRADLE OF FORESTRY REOPENS FOR 2026 SEASON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nature-based holiday is meant to help improve the community by planting trees.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, groups helped plant trees to help with flood prevention and provided educational opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to educate people today in what trees do for our environment and how they support our rivers and river banks and they help slow water, take care of stormwater and that sort of thing. And then we also want people to understand that you know you need to plant trees and you need to plant a lot of them to help with your situation at home, as well as down here in the repairing areas,\u201d said Keith Aiken, urban forester for Asheville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/asheville-north-carolina-arboretum-spring-into-arb-nature-activities-music-art-reconnect-plant-sale-orchid-festival-native-azalea-day-mountain-science-expo-bonsai-blue-ridge-education-center-programs-society-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NORTH CAROLINA ARBORETUM&#8217;S &#8216;SPRING INTO THE ARB&#8217; RETURNS FOR YEAR 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (2)<\/p>\n<p>The group also gave away around 900 trees for people to plant in their yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 The City of Asheville, alongside the Urban Forestry Commission and Riverlink, celebrated Arbor Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-579904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}