For over six year, the Sacramento Tree Foundation has been working in the greater Sacramento area to build the best regional urban forest and plant over five million trees. On Wednesday, January 18, you're invited to find out how you can get involved. For more...
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Common Vision: A Year in the News
by California ReLeaf | Jan 4, 2012 | Network, Updates
Common Vision, a ReLeaf Network member, travels around California in two vegetable oil-powered buses to teach children about sustainability, environmental stewardship, and fruit trees. They're also very successful at getting the news to take notice. Take a look at...
Winds Topple Trees in Southern California
by California ReLeaf | Dec 19, 2011 | Network, Updates
During the first week of December, windstorms devastated communities in the Los Angeles area. Several of our ReLeaf Network members work in these areas, so we were able to get first hand accounts of the wreckage. In total, the windstorms caused more than $40 million...
Ready your Crayons! Pick up your Cameras! Plant a Tree!
by California ReLeaf | Dec 9, 2011 | Arbor Week, Network, Press
NEWS RELEASE California ReLeaf Contact: Ashley Mastin, Program Manager 916-497-0037 December 12, 2011 Ready your Crayons! Pick up your Cameras! Plant a Tree! California Arbor Week Contests Highlight the Importance of Trees Sacramento, Calif. – Two statewide contests...
Four Los Angeles Nonprofits Unite to Plant Trees
by California ReLeaf | Dec 1, 2011 | Grants, Jobs, Network, Updates
The Hollywood/LA Beautification Team (HBT), Koreatown Youth & Community Center (KYCC), Los Angeles Conservation Corps (LACC), Northeast Trees (NET) are co-hosting a local tree planting event to celebrate the multiple job creation and community health benefits that...
Modern-Day Johnny Appleseeds Come to Shasta County
by California ReLeaf | Sep 26, 2011 | Network, Resources, Updates
This September, Common Vision, the traveling tree-planting troupe famous for turning city schoolyards into urban orchards is going rural on a special fall tour that will plant hundreds of fruit trees in Mendocino County, Shasta County, Nevada City, and Chico. Now in...
Governor Brown Signs Volunteer Bill
by California ReLeaf | Sep 7, 2011 | Advocacy, Network, Resources
Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 587 (Gordon and Furutani) on September 6th, which now extends the current prevailing wage exemption for volunteers through 2017. This was the priority legislation for the urban forestry community this year, and is essential to...
Tree Planting Awards Announced
by California ReLeaf | Sep 1, 2011 | Grants, Network, Updates
Sacramento, CA, September 1, 2011 – California ReLeaf announced today that nine community groups across the state will receive a total of over $50,000 in funding for urban forestry tree-planting projects through the California ReLeaf 2011 Tree-Planting Grant Program. ...
Tree Fresno Job Opening – Executive Director
by California ReLeaf | Aug 30, 2011 | Network, Updates
If you have a passion for trees, are an experienced manager, and enjoy working with volunteers, this may be a great opportunity for you. Tree Fresno is seeking a CEO who can lead the Board, staff and volunteers in achieving the organization’s mission of...
2011 Conference
by California ReLeaf | Jun 28, 2011 | Network, Resources, Updates
The Conference Join municipal arborists, urban forest managers, landscape design professionals, planners, and non-profits from across California for this unique educational and networking experience in Palo Alto. With a focus on utilizing urban forestry to revitalize...