Matt Buland, one of our NeighborWoods coordinators suggests, “There should be no marathons, only short sprints to the next shade tree. BANG!!! We’re off.” Read more to see what he means…
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Enjoy winter foliage, and year-round air-cleaning with these popular evergreen trees for our region! These trees are showcased in our online Shady Eighty guide. Strawberry tree – Something showy on this small…
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Dear Arborist, I have a flowering pear tree in my yard that a lot of brown leaves on it. I haven’t stopped watering it, what is going on? What can…
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We offer a wide variety of great trees that won’t run up your water bill. Use our Shady Eighty Tree Guide to choose a tree for your yard or just to learn more about some of our region’s trees. Here are a few of our favorites…
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Every tree planting project starts with who, when, what, where and why. A great deal of thought goes into who needs to be at our initial meeting. When we work with schools, that group usually consists of the principal, a teacher and/or a parent volunteer. Community Forester Matt Buland’s first meeting with Riverview STEM Academy, an elementary school in Rancho Cordova, was quite different.
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On Saturday, May 21 I was reminded as I watched volunteers examine a particularly large, umbrella-like, American elm on 24th Street as to why we want to preserve these trees in the first place.
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Over 100 trees were planted in Rancho Cordova’s Lincoln Village neighborhood thanks to support from the entire community.
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On Saturday, April 23rd, more than 130 volunteers from all over the Sacramento region spent their morning with us at Peter Burnett Elementary School to help kickoff our new South Sacramento NeighborWoods initiative.
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As National Arbor Day approaches, it’s a good time to reflect on our region’s devotion to the trees that make our landscape so pleasing to the senses. Until the 1880’s, Sacramento was nicknamed the “City of Plains” for its broad, treeless flatlands. It was then that an effort began to transform the area into the “City of Trees”; the elm was the crown jewel of the new canopy.
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For nearly a decade, the Sacramento Tree Foundation has been working with SMUD to provide valley oak trees to residents of the City of Elk Grove Rural Community. This program, called Folks for Oaks, was established in 2007 thanks to the gusto and dedication of two community members, Leo Fassler and Nancy Myers. Since the inception of the program, about 1,400 valley oaks have been planted in this community.
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