{"id":46,"date":"2025-10-15T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:48:05","slug":"what-is-an-arboretum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/what-is-an-arboretum\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an Arboretum?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arboretums serve as a living library for environmental research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They are botanical gardens that mainly specialize in trees or woody plants<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are many different kinds and levels of arboreta, the lowest being Level I (Clarkson&#8217;s accreditation) and the highest being Level IV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the requirements to be a Level I arboretum?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>An Arboretum Plan<\/strong>: documentation that defines the purpose of the arboretum, its audience, and provisions for the care and expansion of the arboretum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>An Organizational Group<\/strong>: a dedicated group to the arboretum plan and its continuation beyond the efforts of an individual<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>An Arboretum Collection<\/strong>: a minimum of 25 species of trees or woody plants that have been planted and are growing in accordance with the arboretum plan, and are labeled and available for public access<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Arboretum Staff or Volunteers<\/strong>: those who ensure the fulfillment of the arboretum plan and provide for the basic needs of the arboretum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>An Arboretum Public Dimension<\/strong>: includes public access and public events or educational programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All requirements according to arbnet.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arbnet.org\/accreditation\/levels-accreditation\" style=\"background-color:#004e42; color:white; padding:1em; width:fit-content; border-radius:100em; display: block; text-decoration:none;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kao.kendal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/ArbNet_Logo-web.png\" alt=\"AllTrails Logo\" style=\"height:2em; background-color:white; border-radius:5px; margin-right:1em;\">\n    ArbNet Levels\n<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the requirements to be a Level I arboretum? All requirements according to arbnet.org ArbNet Levels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":221,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/author\/tymkiwec\/","display_name":"tymkiwec"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 months ago","modified":"Updated 9 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 15, 2025","modified":"Updated on November 11, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 15, 2025 3:22 pm","modified":"Updated on November 11, 2025 8:48 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/P1233182-min-scaled.jpg","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/arboretum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}