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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
