McKay Nursery Helps Green Up Milwaukee

Trees were planted along a part of the Hank Aaron Trail, courtesy of McKay Nursery and the Milwaukee Brewers.

As part of the “Root, Root, Root for the Brewers” tree planting campaign, the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team donated 150 landscape-sized saplings. For every 20,000 tickets sold during the regular season, the team donated a tree to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to be planted on the neighboring state-owned Hank Aaron State Trail. McKay Nursery supplied the nursery stock and was also responsible for planting the trees. The goal of the initiative was to offset the number of trees used to print the club’s season ticket sales.

“What a fantastic opportunity to work with the Brewers, celebrate the value trees have to the environment and enhance one of our most popular state trail corridors,” said DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp.

Fifteen native species, including serviceberry, pagoda dogwood, hackberry, hawthorn, and Kentucky coffee trees will be located along the bike trail and pedestrian bridge. Half of the trees were planted in mid-October with the remainder to be planted next spring. The DNR will oversee future care and maintenance of the saplings.