• NHE planted 67 trees of 28 native species in 15 days (about 34 hours) with the help of 2-10 Treekeepers and 5-40 volunteers at each planting: 19 trees in marginalized neighborhoods, 30 at Evanston Township High School, 18 at District 65 schools.  (NHE skipped most spring plantings because of the expected large cicada emergence that could damage young trees.) The species planted include oaks, gums, hickories, sycamore, cherry, pine, beech, ironwood, crabapple, dogwood, serviceberry and redbud among others.
• The Nurturing Nature Speaker Series organized by NHE presented expert-led talks on 11 topics to about 500 people. The talks include the upcoming Doug Tallamy talk to conclude the 2024 series. Check out the upcoming talks for 2025. The talks are aimed at making change: supporting Evanston darker skies, initiating bat conservation, reducing rodenticide use and more.
• With the Channel Habitat Fund managed by NHE, volunteers led by park stewards planted 37 trees and shrubs and 850 wildflowers, sedges and other native plants over many days in spring and fall at Harbert-Payne Park and Ladd Arboretum. Wendy Pollock and Tony Rothschild are the Ladd Arboretum stewards and Tony Rothschild, Celia Michener and Allison Sloan are the park stewards of Harbert-Payne Park. The Channel Habitat is a fund of Natural Habitat Evanston that supports plantings in Evanston's channelside parks. In addition, from other sources during 2024, the volunteers planted a total of 270 whips, trees and shrubs and well over 100 native herbaceous plants at the two locations.
• Another highlight: About 200 Northwestern Kellogg students devoted their November Day of Service to cutting invasive buckthorn along the channel at King Arts School with the help of King Arts parents and teachers, Treekeepers, park stewards and some NHE volunteers.  We also got six trees planted at King Arts that day, and some of the NU students helped.
• NHE volunteers presented on nature topics to about 20 groups (more than 650 people) during 2024.

Natural Habitat Evanston supports Evanston tree plantings, the Nurturing Nature speaker series, the Pollinator Pledge and all its other programs with its general funds.