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 […]
Some of the best of Benicia came out on Saturday morning to enhance Channing Circle Park with nine new trees. “It was a great collaboration of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venture Scouts, the Benicia Tree Foundation, and the City,” said Wade MacAdam, Assistant Cubmaster for Cub Scout Pack 108. Over thirty kids and […]
Our Second Saturday Tree Maintenance Day on the morning of September 9th at Benicia High was well attended. More than twenty Benicia High students volunteered for a few hours to water, weed and mulch around the trees that were planted by the upper parking lot in 2015. There was an assist from a herd of […]
Benicia Tree Foundation's first project involved planting 80 trees at Benicia High along Military West and Denfield Avenue. This included 30 five-gallon size coast live oaks (Quercus agrifolia). The supplemental water applied during the dry season ended in 2013. After two years of average to above average rainfall, many of those trees are 15 to […]
On April 29, a group of Benicia High Students, Cub Scouts, and other Benicia residents, with the assistance from staff of the City's Parks and Community Services Department, planted nine Ginkgo biloba (Maidenhair trees) on Rose Drive east of Panorama Drive.
Twenty Volunteers at Mathew Turner Project Site The sun shined brightly on February 11, which brought out 20 volunteers for our Second Saturday Tree Maintenance Day at Mathew Turner Elementary School. The 50 trees planted in 2014 got some much-needed TLC. Tree wells were weeded and rebuilt to help capture more rainfall. Mulch was applied […]
The Benicia Tree Foundation has scheduled Volunteer Tree Care Days for the Second Saturday and Third Thursday of each month, from 9 am to Noon, for 2017. The first Second Saturday event was on January 14 at Joe Henderson Elementary. Over 80 trees were planted on this campus in 2013. Each year we rebuild the […]
The Benicia Tree Foundation has scheduled Volunteer Tree Care Days for the Second Saturday and Third Thursday of each month for the first half of 2017. BTF volunteers will perform light maintenance tasks such as applying mulch and water, and weeding around trees from 9:00 am to Noon. Volunteer Tree Care Days will rotate among […]
Our Third Thursday Volunteer Day in May at the Lake Herman Open Space project site was well attended by Valero employees. They weeded and watered around the nearly 100 native tree saplings that were planted last November. More BTF in the News August Tree Care Day at BSRA [Edit] Caltrans Approves Adopt-a-Highway Tree Permit […]
