The CSULB campus is home to an urban forest made up of nearly 7000 trees from a diverse mix of botanical species, contributing to our beautiful park-like atmosphere. Trees provide many benefits to our campus community and the environment, such as filtering harmful pollutants from the air, providing shade to people and buildings, sequestering carbon that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere, providing habitat for birds and other animal life, helping people feel connected to nature, and promoting a general sense of wellbeing.
Maintaining the health of our existing trees and increasing shade by planting more trees are key strategies in the university’s Climate Action & Adaptation Plan, which aims to make the campus more resilient to the impacts of climate change.