It is nothing short of astonishing that 31 Newport landscapes can be found on the Morton Register of Arboreta.  All listed properties on the register have been accredited by the international accrediting body, ArbNet.

From schools, private estates and modest homes, to a cemetery and an island with a historic lighthouse, Newport's arboreta come in all shapes and sizes, and are found across the city.

Newport was the first city in the United States to strategically utilize landscape accreditation as a community-wide civic conservation strategy — rapidly increasing engagement while creating a shared framework that encourages creativity, partnership, and pride of place.

Newport's tree conservancy, public forestry & parks department, land trust, local accredited arboreta, schools, private and state universities... all work in concert to promote conservation, revitalize a historic tree canopy, and cultivate the next generation of conservationists.

Students at a local private university can be found studying pressed herbarium specimens, learning how to identify the tree species on their campus and in their city. This rich herbarium collection was established by students from the local public high school working under the instruction of horticulturists from the Newport Tree Conservancy. And the specimens were collected from accredited arboreta properties across the city. 

Students at the high school also participate in heritage tree propagation with the tree conservancy.  Many of Newport's public park and street trees have been grown from seed (to create genetically unique specimen trees of local ecotypes), or from existing heritage trees through the process of grafting (see photo below).