Benicia Tree Foundation in the News
Environmental Leaders Help with Open Space Project
Benicia Tree Foundation hosts Sustainable Solano Youth Program Participants in Sustainable Solano’s Youth Environmental Leadership Fellowship were given a hands-on tour of the Lake Herman Open Space project on Saturday, January 29, 2022. Members of the Benicia Tree Foundation’s Board of Directors reviewed the history of the project and demonstrated the tasks involved in expanding […]
Open Space Trees Get Protection
Valero Funds Supplies for Deer Cages The first 3rd Thursday Tree Care Day of the year involved seven volunteers building and installing deer cages to protect oak trees that were being damaged by deer using the trees to rub the velvet off their new antlers. Click here to read more about the deer problem. The […]
Trees Need Protection at Lake Herman Open Space
Unprotected trees are targeted by wildlife. When trees are initially planted in the open space, cages protected them from goats and other predators. As the trees grew, the cages became too small and were removed. Damage has been observed on these unprotected trees this past year. There are about 17 trees without cages in the […]
Key Club Rescues Tree Care Day
BTF cancels event, then reopens it to volunteers willing to carry the trees and tools to the site. The event was cancelled because vehicle access to the site could not be obtained. Then event organizer decided to re-open the event to volunteers without support from a vehicle. Event organizers were surprised to see 16 volunteers […]
BTF Exploring Partnership with Sustainable Solano
Youth Program in Benicia may include urban forestry. Benicia Tree Foundation and Sustainable Solano see the potential for including an urban forestry project in the Youth Environmental Leadership Program that Sustainable Solano will be launching in January. The Program seeks high school students passionate about the environment and the community to enroll in a 10-week […]
Arbor Day 2021 Held at Benicia Library
On October 23rd, 17 volunteers planted 8 trees and spread piles of mulch. The Arbor Day event was jointly sponsored by the City of Benicia and the Benicia Tree Foundation. Annual Arbor Day events are one of the requirements of the National Arbor Day Foundation for city’s to maintain their Tree City USA designation. Benicia […]
2nd Saturday Tree Care Day in October 2021
14 volunteers watered 84 trees and pruned 12 Coast live oak trees. The trees at Benicia High School and Mary Farmar Elementary School benefited from some TLC by BTF volunteers. The trees each received two-gallons of water. Special thanks to the volunteers from the Benicia High School Key Club and Boy Scout Troop 007. The […]
BTF Gives Status Report to BUSD Trustees
Long partnership between BTF and BUSD has planted 470 trees on school campuses. BTF has been planting trees on Benicia Unified school campuses since 2011. Several tree projects have been delayed by the pandemic. A status report on the partnership between BTF and Benicia Unified was delivered at the October 7 meeting of BUSD Trustees […]
Class of 2012 Has Reunion with Trees
Graduates of Henderson Elementary kindergarten class visit trees they planted in 2012. Now they are students at Benicia High, but in 2012 they were all in kindergarten and in one day planted dozens of trees around the Henderson school playfield as a class project. Recently they got a chance to compare their growth with that […]
August Tree Care Day at BSRA
Tree Maintenance at Benicia State Park. The Benicia Tree Foundation’s Third Thursday Tree Care Day in August included a tree pruning clinic at the Benicia State Recreation Area in cooperation with the State Parks’ Volunteers in Park Program and the Benicia State Parks Association. Volunteers were trained in how to prune coast live oaks. Twelve […]
Caltrans Approves Adopt-a-Highway Tree Permit
Benicia Tree Foundation is an Adopt-a-Highway Sponsor for I-780. In July, the Benicia Tree Foundation received approval from Caltrans to maintain trees at the Military West westbound offramp to the I-780 freeway in Benicia. The Benicia Tree Foundation planted 22 trees inside the loop of this offramp last November as part of a joint project […]
Second Saturday Tree Care Day in May was a Buffet
Volunteers maintained trees at three project sites. The Second Saturday Tree Care Day in May was used to maintain trees planted at Benicia State Recreation Area, Mary E. Farmar Elementary School, and Joe Henderson Elementary School. All the sites were relatively small, but spread out. BSRA had three separate groups of trees, the Mary Farmar […]