Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes is the largest public housing development in the world. The Robert Taylor Homes consist of 28 sixteen-story apartment buildings. Most of the complex is an urban desert- concrete and asphalt cover the spaces between the buildings- but there are pockets of trees here and there. In 2001, Frances Kuo and Bill […]
BENICIA — Say trees! Err, “cheese.” Tree advocates are snapping a picture of the city’s first heritage tree on Saturday, and residents are invited to crowd into the shot, the Benicia Tree Foundation says. “Honoring this tree and recording the moment will take no more time than posting your status on Facebook, but carry far […]
A group of tree-minded citizens helped celebrate Benicia’s first Heritage Tree. By JB Davis A small group of tree enthusiasts congregated at City Park Saturday morning, May 21 to help commemorate the city’s first Heritage Tree. Wolfram Alderson, Executive Director of the Benicia Tree Foundation, spoke briefly about the tree, a California Live Oak estimated […]
Benicians were invited to honor and celebrate Benicia’s First Heritage Tree with a community-wide photo opportunity that took place on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 9am. Participants were asked to show up at 9am (sharp) at Benicia’s First Heritage Tree which is located in Jensen Park near the intersection of W. 2nd Street and W. […]
By Donna Beth Weilenman, Staff Reporter, Benicia Herald Last month, vandals chopped through most of the 20 young tulip trees that had been planted at Southampton Park with the help of Interact Club members of Benicia High School last October. Tuesday afternoon, members of Girl Scout Troop 20639 helped plant the first of a batch of […]
By David Ryan Palmer, Assistant Editor Tree lovers, a heads-up: Saturday is your chance to help plant 80 trees on the Benicia High School campus, and help out the environment a whole bunch by doing so. The Benicia Tree Foundation, headed by Wolfram Alderson, will plant California live oak, incense cedar and Theodore cedar at the […]
By Donna Beth Weilenman, Staff Reporter for the Benicia Herald Benicia has been recognized as a Tree City USA for the third time and has been given a Growth Award for its second consecutive year, Mario Giuliani of the Office of the Director, Parks and Community Services Department, said this week. The announcement came a little […]
