Bexar Branches Alliance

Trees Are Critical Infrastructure. Our Kids Are Counting on Us.

We invest in roads, water systems, schools, power, and drainage because our communities depend on them.  

Trees are infrastructure, too.

They cool the places where our children learn and play. They improve air quality, help manage stormwater and flooding, support wildlife, and make our communities healthier and more resilient.

At Bexar Branches Alliance, we believe trees are essential to healthy, thriving communities. Our mission is to plant, preserve, and educate to build a stronger community forest for South Central Texas.

Children are among the people who benefit every day from healthy trees. Trees provide shade on school campuses and playgrounds, create outdoor learning opportunities, and help make the places where children learn and play healthier and more resilient.

Project CANOPY is one example of how BBA puts our mission into action. 

Through Project CANOPY, we bring trees, science, and hands-on learning directly to schools. Since launching the program, we have planted 510 trees across five elementary school campuses and engaged more than 850 fourth- and fifth-grade students.

Students don't just plant trees. They learn about climate resilience and biodiversity, monitor tree growth, and collect real-world data through the NASA- and NOAA-supported GLOBE Program. 

Now, Project CANOPY is growing. BBA is preparing to expand the program to 10 additional schools, bringing 1,250 more trees to school campuses and connecting more than 1,800 students, teachers, volunteers, and community  to the benefits trees.

The trees become living classrooms providing shade, environmental benefits, and educational opportunities for students and their communities for years to come. BBA also commits to caring for and monitoring each planting site for three years to help ensure these investments thrive.

 

 Project CANOPY is one example. BBA's work extends far beyond any single program or school.

Help Us Grow What Our Communities Need

Our region is losing tree canopy while facing increasing heat, air-quality challenges, flooding, and other pressures on our communities. We cannot afford to treat trees as an afterthought. We need to invest in trees as the critical infrastructure they are.

Your support helps BBA advance our mission to plant, preserve, and educate and respond to the needs of communities across South Central Texas. Trees take years to grow. The time to invest is now.

Help us plant. Help us preserve. Help us educate.

Help us grow the trees our kids are counting on.