We planted 57 trees in one day -- our biggest day ever!
On Saturday, February 23, we planted 57 trees at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, part of the East Bay Regional Parks District.   Together with more than 30 volunteers from Oakland and other Bay Area cities, we spent a productive morning planting, watering, and staking these trees.  Twenty-eight are coast live oaks (Oakland's namesake tree), twenty-six are Catalina ironwoods, and three are Fremont cottonwoods.  If you go to the Garretson Point Staging Area and walk/hike/bike along the trails, you will see the new trees.  Say hello and wish them well!
Thanks again to the staff at East Bay Regional Parks District for coordinating this project with us.

The 2018-'19 planting season is going strong!
Our new planting season began on Saturday, December 1. 
We have already planted 200 trees and we are looking forward to planting many more this season.
We are still accepting applications for trees, at the link in the button above.
Please submit your application by March 31, or we might run out of time to provide a tree for you this season.
We planted more than 230 trees in our 2017-'18 planting season, between December 2017 and July 2018.

We were the "Nonprofit of the Month" at Oaklandish!
Trees for Oakland is honored to have been named the Oaklandish Nonprofit of the Month for November 2018.
Oaklandish generously donated 10% of all sales throughout November to customers who used the special code TREESXOAK18.

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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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