BTF News

Join us the morning of Saturday, May 11th to help with weeding, pruning and staking our two year old urban forest along Military West in front of Benicia High School! Register online through our webform or email info@beniciatrees.org

This workshop will be held at Henderson Elementary School, 650 Hastings Drive, Benicia from 9AM to Noon on Saturday, April 27th. Certified Consulting Arborist Ed Brennan will lead us through proper pruning techniques and other tree maintenance skills! Register online through our webform or email info@beniciatrees.org

Benicia Tree Foundation, in partnership with BUSD and the Semple Parent-Teacher Group has succesfully planted 80 trees at Robert Semple Elementary School as part of our Urban Forestry Initiative. Supported by a generous grant from California ReLeaf, BTF volunteers along with parents, teachers and students joined together over a series of volunteer work days planting trees at the Semple campus that will benefit Benicia students for generations to come!

The 2012 Annual Tree Challenge Winners were announced at the Third Annual Arbor Day Celebration.

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Seventy-five kindergarten students at Joe Henderson Elementary School planted twenty-two trees on their campus as a part of a campus forestry initiative co-sponsored by the Benicia Tree Foundation (BTF) and the Benicia Unified School District (BUSD).

Henderson School Principal Carin Garton, three Kindergartner teachers, and more than a dozen parents supported the students’ efforts.

Benicia Tree Foundation held a tree planting in the Community Park on Thursday, October 13th, with the very motivated Cub Scout Pack 108 taking the lead. Pack leader Jeff Conner was there with Gretchen Burgess and many other Cub Scout Parents to support and witness the scouts plant a 24” box Strawberry (Arbutus) Tree near the playground area adjacent to the “Giant Slide.” The Benicia Tree Foundation and Pack 108 are donating the funds to plant the tree and will be recognized with a permanent plaque at the site.

The Benicia Tree Foundation (BTF) has partnered with the Benicia Unified School District (BUSD) to garner grants from California ReLeaf to plant 80 trees at Benicia High School (planted in 2011) and another 80 trees (to be planted this year) at Joe Henderson Elementary School. The partnership is built upon volunteer support consisting of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members. Two events are planned this month in support of these efforts:

The Benicia Tree Foundation (BTF) has partnered with the Benicia Unified School District (BUSD) to garner grants from California ReLeaf to plant 80 trees at Benicia High School (planted in 2011) and another 80 trees (to be planted this year) at Joe Henderson Elementary School. The partnership is built upon volunteer support consisting of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members. Two events are planned this month in support of these efforts:

One more tree will be added to Benicia High School’s landscape, and 80 others that were planted last year will get some maintenance Saturday, said Wolfram Alderson, executive director of the Benicia Tree Foundation.

A grant from California ReLeaf will pay for the trees at the high school as well as the 80 that will be added to the Joe Henderson Elementary School campus Jan. 28, Alderson said. Both plantings are part of an effort to add 1,000 new trees to the city.

The Benicia Tree Foundation (BTF) has partnered with the Benicia Unified School District (BUSD) to garner grants from California ReLeaf to plant 80 trees at Benicia High School (planted in 2011) and another 80 trees (to be planted this year) at Joe Henderson Elementary School. The partnership is built upon volunteer support consisting of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members.  Two events are planned this month in support of these efforts: