Ian Peisner, front, planting coordinator for TreeUtah, helps volunteer Preston Willey move a plane tree into place at Stratford Park in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 4, 2020. TreeUtah organized volunteers to help plant the trees, just the latest of more than 385,000 trees the nonprofit has planted around Utah. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
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Ian Peisner, front, planting coordinator for TreeUtah, helps volunteer Preston Willey move a plane tree into place at Stratford Park in Salt Lake City on Thursday. TreeUtah organized volunteers to help plant the trees, just the latest of more than 385,000 trees the nonprofit has planted around Utah. The nonprofit organization works with government agencies, local businesses, church groups and community volunteers to plant trees in public spaces throughout the state. It plants trees of all types and aims to plant 7,000 new trees to make our communities healthier.

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Teen Miss Utah Earth 2020 Eliana Groves, 16, center, gets some help from her mother, Maria, left, and sister, Analina, right, to dig a hole to plant a plane tree at Stratford Park in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Eliana Groves attended the tree planting organized by TreeUtah as part of her service mission for the environmentally themed pageant. The nonprofit TreeUtah has planted more than 385,000 trees around Utah. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
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Preston Willey digs a hole to plant a plane tree at Stratford Park in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 4, 2020. TreeUtah organized volunteers to help plant the trees, just the latest of more than 385,000 trees the nonprofit has planted around Utah. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
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Bryan Belliston digs a hole to plant a plane tree at Stratford Park in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 4, 2020. TreeUtah organized volunteers to help plant the trees, just the latest of more than 385,000 trees the nonprofit has planted around Utah. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
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Maggie, center, supervises as her owners, Art and Diane Warsoff, dig a hole to plant a maple tree at Stratford Park in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 4, 2020. TreeUtah organized volunteers to help plant the trees, just the latest of more than 385,000 trees the nonprofit, of which Art Warsoff serves on the board, has planted around Utah. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
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