Planting will start soon!
Our 2018-'19 planting season will open on Saturday, December 1.  We are looking forward to planting trees again.
(We canceled the planned planting on November 17 because of the smoky air.)
We are still accepting new applications for trees through this website, at the link in the button above.
We planted more than 230 trees in our 2017-'18 planting season, between December 2017 and July 2018.

We are the "Nonprofit of the Month" (November) at Oaklandish!
Trees for Oakland is honored to be named the Oaklandish Nonprofit of the Month.
Oaklandish will generously donate 10% of all sales throughout November using the special code TREESXOAK18.
The code will apply for both in-store and online sales. 
The more tees you buy, the more trees we can plant!

Calendar of Events
Check out our calendar for opportunities to help Oakland:

Other recent news: City Council restores funding for a tree crew!

Brief Background:
Oakland City Council cut the 2009-'11 budget for the Tree Services Division (a part of Public Works) because of the recession.
Tree Services laid off half of their employees, including 2 of their 3 work crews. They stopped pruning trees and stopped planting trees.
This situation inspired the founding of a new volunteer tree-planting program that later came to be called the Sierra Club Tree Team (or SCTT), which in turn gave rise to this program (Trees for Oakland, a project of the Oakland Parks & Recreation Foundation (OPRF)).

With the recession behind us, the Oakland Urban Forestry Forum and a coalition of community groups in Oakland have urged the City Council to do these 3 things:

1. restore funding for the Tree Services Division (part of Public Works) to at least the 2007 level of 30 employees;
   
2. fund an Urban Forestry Management Plan;
   
3. establish an Urban Forestry Commission or Task Force.
   

Read the full document here (click for 2-page PDF).

As of July 1, the City Council approved the next 2-year budget, for Fiscal Years 2017-'18 and 2018-'19.
It includes a restored 5-person crew (4 tree trimmers and 1 supervisor) for tree maintenance, under the Alameda County Measure BB sales tax for transportation projects.

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