By Donna Beth Weilenman, Staff Reporter, The Benicia Herald By the end of April, Benicia High School will have 80 new trees on its campus, said Wolfram Alderson, executive director of the Benicia Tree Foundation. And the first step toward the tree planting happens Saturday. The trees are coming through […]
The Benicia Tree Foundation’s efforts to establish the first heritage tree in Benicia were recognized on the California ReLeaf web site. Click here to view the article. More BTF in the News Benicia’s First Heritage Tree [Edit] August Tree Care Day at BSRA [Edit] Caltrans Approves Adopt-a-Highway Tree Permit [Edit] Second Saturday Tree Care Day […]
By Tony Burchyns, Times Herald BENICIA — Five summers ago the removal of trees from Benicia High School caused a local controversy. Now the school is welcoming the arrival of 80 new trees — nearly three times the number chopped down around the ball fields in 2006 due to disease or roots deemed too near […]
By JB Davis, The Benicia Patch The Benicia Tree Foundation has partnered with the Benicia Unified School District to plant 80 trees at Benicia High School. The project will be implemented in three phases, with the first volunteer-based event Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. Click here to read the entire story in the Benicia […]
By Donna Beth WeilenmanStaff Reporter – The Benicia Herald Benicia Tree Committee agreed Monday night with its staff adviser that the city’s tree fund should be spent cautiously. “We’re in a budget crisis,” Mario Giuliani of the office of the director of Parks and Community Services told the panel. The committee oversees the fund, which […]
By Donna Beth WeilenmanStaff Reporter – The Benicia Herald A decades-old coastal oak in City Park may become Benicia’s first “Heritage Tree,” Parks, Recreation and Cemetery Commission Chairman Nancy Cockerham said Thursday. The Tree Committee, a commission subcommittee, will hear a report on the tree’s nomination Monday. The city’s Tree Foundation nominated the tree for […]
By Clarisa Morales Roberts – Benicia.Patch.com Benicia is poised to have its first Heritage Tree if City Council approves a Parks, Recreation and Cemetery Commission recommendation made at their meeting, Wednesday night, February 9 at City Hall. The Benicia Tree Foundation recommended that a Coastal Live Oak in Jenson Park be designated as a Heritage […]
By JB Davis - Benicia.Patch.com The city's Parks, Recreation and Cemetery Commission is poised to recommend granting Heritage Tree status to a coastal live oak in the southwest quadrant of City Park. The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the Commission Room in BeniciaCity Hall, 250 East L St. The commission is also […]
By Ed Brennan, Benicia Patch. Benicia oversees the well-being of 4,320 trees, 43 of which should get the axe because of structural defects or poor health, according to a new inventory of the city’s trees. The report presented Thursday valued the city’s trees at nearly $13 million and named the Bradford pear as the city’s […]
