An exciting place you can explore year-round is our campus arboretum, a three-acre preserve behind Brooks Hall.
The attractive setting, established in 1939, contains nearly 100 native, exotic, and ornamental tree and shrub species and is a living learning laboratory for students, as well as a quiet place to study.
Collections of trees include Sapindaceae (maple and buckeye), Fagaceae (beech, oak and chestnut), Juglandaceae (walnut and hickory), Fabaceae (locusts), and Betulaceae (birch and allies) families, as well as a wide range of conifers.
The Arboretum is located behind Brooks Hall and is open to the public from dawn to dusk. Please leave no trace and carry in what you carry out.
Rebecca Hargrave
As a professor in the Natural Resources Conservation and Environmental & Natural Resources Management programs, Rebecca Hargrave teaches the Arboriculture, Dendrology, Recreation Management, Natural Resources Measurements, and Forest Protection classes. Professor Hargrave is also responsible for the Environmental Sciences internship program. Managerial oversight includes the Morrisville Arboretum and the Callahan Brook Nature Trail.
Rebecca Hargrave earned her master's degree in urban forestry from the University of Minnesota, her bachelor's degree in forest science and urban forestry from Penn State University, and is a Ph.D. student at UMass Amherst. She has been an ISA Certified Arborist since 2001 and is also Tree Risk Assessment Qualified.