Plant Smart is a campaign to encourage careful planting and to protect America's trees from harmful foreign species.
Plant nurseries, recreation groups, landowners and conservationists are uniting in support of stronger regulations on plant imports that will prevent deadly foreign insects and diseases from attacking our native trees.
Public Concern About Invasive Tree Killing Insects and Diseases Remains Strong
Trees, plants and shrubs imported into the United States can have harmful hitchhikers, such as beetles buried in the wood of a sapling, or tiny mites on the leaves of a flowering plant. Find out more about the pests that kill trees in our parks and neighborhoods, choke farmland, and devastate forests.
"The nursery industry faces huge costs both to control the pests and in loss of sales and other interruptions," says Jerry Lee of the nationwide Monrovia Nursery. We can stand together against the threat these invasive foreign pests pose to nature and the economy. Learn how you can help and join Plant Smart in support of stronger regulations to protect your trees.