Thank you for your partnership as we work to reforest 1 million acres across Minnesota!

We are interested in your feedback on a preliminary list of tree species as we begin to think about what to include in the Minnesota Million project.

This list contains tree species indicated as having fair, good, mixed, and new habitat potential adaptability to climate change in Minnesota’s Eastern Broadleaf Forest region. These selections were based on the information presented in the USFS Climate Change Tree Atlas.

The species were analyzed using scores of suitability (likely expansion or contraction of the species' suitable habitat under an extreme climate change scenario), and adaptability (a species' ability to adapt to various stressors). For more details and individual species ratings, visit https://tnc.box.com/s/29lexpxakk9bj1fqk9soiwa8uo7pt12d.

Eventually, we envision a long list that will be divided into different segments: trees well suited to riparian areas, trees by growing zone, trees that produce food etc. For now, we are interested in your initial responses to including the following species in this project, taking into account seed collection, seed germination, seedling production, large scale planting, etc).

• American elm, Ulmus americana
• Bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis
• Black cherry, Prunus serotina
• Black hickory, Carya texana
• Black oak, Quercus velutina
• Black walnut, Juglans nigra
• Bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa
• Chinkapin oak, Quercus muehlenbergii
• Common persimmon, Diospyros virginiana
• Eastern cottonwood, Populus deltoides
• Eastern hophornbeam; Ironwood, Ostrya virginiana
• Eastern redbud, Cercis canadensis
• Eastern redcedar, Juniperus virginiana
• Hackberry, Celtis occidentalis
• Honeylocust, Gleditsia triacanthos
• Jack pine, Pinus banksiana
• Mockernut hickory, Carya tomentosa
• Northern pin oak, Quercus ellipsoidalis
• Northern red oak, Quercus rubra
• Northern white cedar, Thuja occidentalis
• Osage-orange, Maclura pomifera
• Paper birch, Betula papyrifera
• Pin oak, Quercus palustris
• Post oak, Quercus stellata
• Red maple, Acer rubrum
• Sassafras, Sassafras albidum
• Shagbark hickory, Carya ovata
• Shingle oak, Quercus imbricaria
• Silver maple, Acer saccharinum
• Sugar maple, Acer saccharum
• Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor
• Sycamore, Platanus occidentalis
• White oak, Quercus alba