Spring 2015 Community Tree Planting

 

The city’s boulevard tree spaces are currently over half empty and each year 1,000 boulevard trees are removed to disease or damage. We need your help to add 200 more street trees to the Sunnyside and Slatterly Park neighborhoods in southeast Rochester.  Much of this planting will focus on planting the “Right Trees in the Right Place” through placing short stature trees under power lines to prevent problems in the future of the trees growing into the wires.

Saturday, May 2
Starting at 8:30 am
Meet at the RNeighbors offices’ parking lot, on the Fairgrounds at 1421 3rd Avenue SE.

You’ll be able to see our volunteers in bright shirts, register with them. You’ll be given a team number, instructions and then get ready to plant some trees.

No Cost

There is no pre-registration needed and all ages are welcome. On the day of the planting, just look for the RNeighborWoods table and smiling people with safety orange vests. There will be free refreshments and t-shirts for volun-trees thanks to our sponsors. We’ll introduce our Citizen Foresters, go over the logistics of the planting, divide into groups, and then plant trees within this neighborhood.

Print or email this PLANTING POSTER for your friends! In order to diversify our urban forest we will plant:

See the photos from our 2013 fall planting on our Facebook page. We planted 100 trees in the Kutzky Park neighborhood in southwest Rochester. For more about RNeighborWoods including partners, events, and photos, check our website.

Did you know that trees make a difference in many aspects of a neighborhood? The below information is from the Alliance for Community Trees and additional facts and figures can be found on their website.

• Lower crime. The presence of trees in urban neighborhoods has been linked to reduced crime.
• Cleaner air Trees provide the oxygen we breathe. One acre of trees produces enough oxygen for 18 people to breathe each day and eliminates as much carbon dioxide from the air as is produced from driving a car 26,000 miles.
• Energy savings. Trees lower the temperature through shade. The cooling effects of trees can save millions of energy dollars.
• More public revenue. Studies have shown that trees enhance community economic stability by attracting businesses and tourists.
• Higher property values. Property values of homes with trees in the landscape are 5 – 20% higher than equivalent properties without trees.
• More efficient stormwater management. One tree reduces 4000 gallons of storm water runoff annually. 400 trees will capture 140,000 gallons of rainwater annually. That is, 4 million trees would save $14 million in annual storm water runoff costs.

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