Fall 2013 Community Tree Planting
Neighbors rolled up their sleeves this spring and planted trees. Thanks to over 500 volunteers, 260 trees found homes in the Eastside neighborhood boulevards.
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 remove Ash trees and plant native tree types in boulevards. We’ll be planting 200 trees from Kutzky Park spreading down north, west on 16th Avenue. Tree types to be planted include Ginkgo, Amur Corktree, KCT, Disease Resistant Elm, Ornamental Pear, and Redbud. Appropriate shorter trees will be planted under power lines.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
8:30 am
No Cost
Meet at the Kutzky Park Pavilion, 213 13 Avenue NW.
Parking will be limited so please carpool, bike, or walk.
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 voluntrees 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 with your friends!
See the photos from our other community tree plantings on our Facebook page.
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.
We look forward to seeing you at our fall tree planting events!
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