Spring 2013 Community Tree Planting
On Saturday, May 5, 2012, over 500 neighbors, youth, and other community volunteers worked together to plant 1,200 trees in one morning, a record number of trees planted in one morning for the state of Minnesota and the RNeighborWoods program.
The city’s boulevard tree spaces are currently over half empty and each year 500-900 boulevard trees are removed to disease or damage. We need your help to add more community trees to this neighborhood. We’ll be planting 200 trees starting at Adventure Playground (part of Silver Lake Park) The trees for this event were sponsored by Rochester Public Utility and the City
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RPU Arbor Day Celebration April 26
Partnering Sponsors – Rochester Public Utilities (RPU), Maier Tree & Lawn, and Rochester Park & Recreation hold an Annual Arbor Day Celebration on the last Friday in April every year.
The celebration is held between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in downtown Rochester and is open to the public. The festivities include live music, lunch, free trees, various vendors, and many family activities. Winners of the elementary school Arbor Day Poster Contest are also announced.
Friday, April 26, 2013
11 am-1 pm
Mayo Park, located behind the Mayo Civic Center. As in past years, if there is extreme weather, the event will be moved indoors – this
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Right Tree, Right Place Arbor Day Planting 2013
After you attend Rochester Public Utilities’ 11th Annual Arbor Day Celebration on Friday, April 26 at Mayo Park from 11am-1 pm, come celebrate Arbor Day afternoon and plant 50 trees under utility lines.
Join us and plant the right tree in the right place, short trees for under power lines.
Friday, April 26, 2013
12:30 pm
Meet east of the river along the power line area of Mayo Park, East of Mayo Civic Center
• No cost
• No experience necessary
• All ages welcome
• If you have one, bring a shovel (labeled with your name)
Tree Types for Under Power Lines
European Hornbeam
MN Strain Redbud
Korean Mountian Ash
Pekin Lilac
Here’s a link to the
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2013 Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Award Winners
Sponsored by the RNeighborWoods program, the Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Award was created to recognize amazing citizens, for outstanding contributions to Rochester’s urban forest. There are three categories for these awards including adult, youth and business.
2013 Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Award Winners
Adult: Jason Schilling
Business: Jim Whiting’s Nursery (Jim Whiting and Chris Graves)
These awards will be presented by Mayor Brede at the Environmental Awareness Month Proclamation, Tuesday, April 2, 10 am in the Rotunda of the Government Center.
Adult: Jason Schilling
Jason works at Mayo Clinic in a laboratory by day, but has been an advocate for neighborhood trees since 2008 when he moved to Rochester.
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2013 Spring Tree Grant Application Now Available
Photo: On a very drippy Saturday afternoon, October 13, the RNeighborWoods team helped the Viking Village neighborhood plant 25 trees each, as part of their Neighborhood Tree Grant.
Trees make good neighbors.
Since its creation in 2004, RNeighborWoods has organized 4101 volunteers to plant 5160 trees on Rochester boulevards. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Once again the City of Rochester, RPU and RNeighbors is offering two grants for winning neighborhoods to receive free boulevard trees.
Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant!
We have 50 trees that will all be awarded to two neighborhoods that want to pitch in and help get the trees in the ground! You can read
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RAW Winter Workshop – Thursday, February 21
Tree Assessment
Likelihood & Consequences of Tree Failures
Featuring
E. Thomas Smiley, Ph.D., Arboricultural Researcher
Brian Kane, Professor of Forestry, University of Massachusetts
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Rochester International Event Center
7333 Airport View Rd. SW, Rochester, MN 55902
Mail-in Registration Form
On-line Registration Here
Sessions
Dr. Smiley’s sessions will examine his new research about important tree risk information. This information is vital to the modern arborist – it pertains to anyone that removes, prunes, consults and climbs trees. Dr. Smiley has been a leader in arboricultural research for decades and these lectures are what arborists and foresters should not miss!
Dr. Kane’s sessions will look at the application of risk assessment.
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2012 Fall RNeighborWoods Community Tree Planting
Once again neighbors rolled up their sleeves this fall and planted trees, celebrating the great green community-building national NeighborWoods month. Thanks to over 280 volunteers, this fall 360 trees have found homes in Rochester neighborhood boulevards.
September 29, was a gorgeous fall day and over 250 Rochester neighbors came out to plant 330 boulevard trees in the neighborhoods surrounding Fox Valley Drive SW. We started a little after 9 am, all of the trees were in the ground by 11 am. Thanks to each of you who came out to lend a hand. What a difference your volunteerism has made to this neighborhood street!
This tree planting was funded
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2012 Fall RNeighborWoods Tree Grant Planting
Photo: On a very drippy Saturday afternoon, October 13, the RNeighborWoods team helped the Viking Village neighborhood plant 25 trees each, as part of their Neighborhood Tree Grant.
At RNeighbors, we know that trees make good neighbors. That is why we partner with the City of Rochester, the Park and Rec Department and Rochester Public Utilities to offer the RNeighborWoods Tree grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees in the spring and fall.
Congrats to the Viking Village neighborhood for planting 25 new boulevard trees on Saturday, October 13, winners of the RNeighborWoods grant.
“I think our Neighborhood Tree Grant was totally priceless! Even though it
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Fall 2012 Community Tree Planting
On Saturday, May 5, 2012, over 500 neighbors, youth, and other community volunteers worked together to plant 1,200 trees in one morning, a record number of trees planted in one morning for the state of Minnesota and the RNeighborWoods program.
The city’s boulevard tree spaces are currently over half empty and each year 500-900 boulevard trees are removed to disease or damage. We need your help to add more community trees to this neighborhood. This tree planting is funded by a grant from the DNR specifically to plant city trees, creating a corridor of boulevards trees to connect two parks. We’ll be
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2012 Fall RNeighborWoods Tree Grant
Photo: On April 21, the RNeighborWoods team helped both the Historic SW and the Folwell neighborhoods plant 25 trees each, as part of their Neighborhood Tree Grant.
Trees make good neighbors.
Since its creation in 2004, RNeighborWoods has organized 3,816 volunteers to plant 4,805 trees on Rochester boulevards. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Once again the City of Rochester, RPU and RNeighbors is offering two grants for winning neighborhoods to receive free boulevard trees.
Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant!
We have 50 trees that will all be awarded to two neighborhoods that want to pitch in and help get the trees in the ground!
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