Benicia Tree Foundation in the News
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 […]
Trees for Park Master Plan Update
Benicia Tree Foundation asks City to plant more trees in its open spaces. Last month the City of Benicia went public with its update of the 1997 Parks, Trails and Open Space Master Plan. The update of the plan is expected to take about a year. As an initial step, the City asked representatives of […]
Earth Day at Lake Herman Open Space
15 volunteers celebrated Earth Day by watering over 100 acorns and tree saplings. The Benicia Tree Foundation chose the Lake Herman Open Space for this Earth Day event because of our dry winter. Many seeds for native trees were planted the past two winters and need some help to survive our extended dry season. Many […]
Tree Care Days Return to Benicia High School
Thirty three volunteers from Travis Air Force Base participated in the a Second Saturday Tree Care Day at Benicia High School on April 10. This was the first Tree Care Day at the high school since February 2020, before the pandemic. With all these volunteers, we checked on 80 trees around the upper parking lot […]
Tree Pruning Clinic held at Semple Elementary School
Arborists from A-Plus Tree Service trained volunteers in proper tree pruning techniques. A dozen volunteers, including members of Boy Scout Troop 7, attended Benicia Tree Foundation’s Second Saturday Tree Care Day on March 13th which featured a tree pruning clinic at Robert Semple Elementary School. A-Plus Tree Service donated the services of arborists Chad Brey […]
Acorns and Saplings Watered at Lake Herman Open Space
Twelve volunteers gave Mother Nature an assist by watering almost 100 tree sites planted with either acorns or tree saplings. Benicia Tree Foundation typically waters trees the first two years after planting during the dry season to get them established. This is the first year when the trees have been watered during the rainy season […]
Pruning Clinic & Tree Care Day Scheduled
Volunteers are needed to prune and mulch trees planted by students in 2013.