Saturday, March 24, 2018, the City of Benicia and the Benicia Tree Foundation are sponsoring a community tree planting event at Francesca Terrace Park, 698 Hillcrest Avenue, at 9:00 AM to celebrate Arbor Day. Join your neighbors to help plant ten trees. No experience is needed. If you plan to attend, please register so that […]
Ten volunteers responded to our Second Saturday Tree Care Day at Benicia Tree Foundation’s Lake Herman Open Space project site. About 18 trees were refitted with new cages to keep out the voles. There are about 30 trees left to retrofit. More BTF in the News Second Saturday in February was at Lake Herman [Edit] […]
Last month the Benicia Tree Foundation received a grant from the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment. The grant was from their Environmental Grassroots Fund and will support BTF operations. “This grant provides a huge boost to our efforts for 2018,” said BTF President Alison Fleck. “We are also grateful to the letters of […]
The first 3rd Thursday in 2018 was celebrated at Benicia Tree Foundation’s Lake Herman Open Space project site. About a dozen volunteers from Benicia’s Valero refinery participated. Last year they helped us start replacing the tree cages around the tree saplings planted in the open space to protect them from the voles that invaded the […]
The Second Saturday and Third Thursday Tree Care Days for the first six months of 2018 have been posted on our website calendar. Each Tree Care Day begins at 9 AM and ends no later than Noon. Pick a date and register on our website or call us at 745-4546 and leave your name and […]
Preparing the Tree Care Days schedule for 2018 required site visits to assess conditions at the various project sites maintained by the Benicia Tree Foundation. The site visits occurred on December 23rd. Here is a quick rundown on what was found. Semple School was the first project site visited. 80 trees were planted in 2013 […]
Our Second Saturday Tree Care Day on December 9th was at Benicia State Recreation Area. This event was originally scheduled in October, but was cancelled due to the smoke created by the wildfires to the north. Eight of the 22 tree saplings at this site have been lost since they were planted in 2014. Volunteers […]
Our Second Saturday Tree Care Day on November 11 was at Benicia Middle School. Volunteers cleared weeds around the trees, cleaned out the tree wells and mulched. The trees are now ready for the rainy season. Some of the trees had grown enough to be pruned, so training was provided on proper tree pruning techniques. […]
At our Third Thursday Tree Maintenance Day in August, we were at the Lake Herman Open Space project site and noticed many of the trees were damaged. Trees were missing all their leaves or were gnawed off at the base of their small trunks. The predator was small enough to get through the chicken wire […]
