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...
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Municipal Forestry Internship Program
The Society of Municipal Arborists, in conjunction with the USDA Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry Program and the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, is launching a municipal forestry internship program for under-graduate college students interested in a...
Governor Brown Signs Volunteer Bill
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
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
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...
Webinar: Red Fields to Green Fields
Red Fields to Green Fields is a national research effort led by Georgia Tech Research Institute in partnership with the City Parks Alliance to evaluate the potential impacts of converting financially and/or physically distressed commercial real estate to land banks --...
2011 Conference
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...
Innovative School Tree Policy Leads the Nation
PALO ALTO – On June 14, 2011, the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) adopted one of the very first School District Board of Education Policies on Trees in California. The Tree Policy was developed by members from the District’s Sustainable Schools Committee,...
Help Your Colleague Win a Truck for Trees!
Toyota collected thousands of applications from organizations nationwide hoping to have a chance to participate in the company’s Facebook-driven 100 Cars for Good Campaign. The contest was designed by Toyota to salute do-gooders by giving 100 cars over 100 days to...
Congresswoman Matsui introduces Energy Conservation Through Trees Act
Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) introduced H.R. 2095, the Energy Conservation Through Trees Act, legislation that would support programs run by electric utilities that use targeted planting of shade trees in order to reduce residential energy demand. This...