Benicia Tree Foundation in the News
See Schedule for the 2018 Tree Care Days
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 for the New Year
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 […]
December Tree Care Day at Benicia State Park
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 […]
November Tree Care Day at Benicia Middle School
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. […]
Tree Predators at Lake Herman Open Space
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 […]
Channing Circle Park Tree Planting
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 […]
Benicia High Project Gets Some T.L.C.
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 […]
Pruning Underway for Oak Trees at Benicia High
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 […]
2017 Arbor Day Event on Rose Drive
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.
Second Saturday Tree Maintenance Day at Mathew Turner Project Site
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 […]
Students Volunteer at First Tree Maintenance Day for 2017
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 […]
Volunteer Tree Care Days Set for 2017
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 […]