15 trees planted between Jack London Park and Turner Elementary Benicia’s urban forest grew by 15 trees planted along Rose Drive on November 14th by volunteers from Benicia High School Key Club and Travis Air Force Base 60th Communications Squadron. The volunteers gathered at Jack London Park where they received a safety briefing by Steven […]
Trees returned to the freeway in Benicia on November 7. After years of tree removals from I-780 by Caltrans, the Benicia Tree Foundation organized a group of 17 volunteers to plant 22 trees on that day at the Military West westbound offramp. Volunteers included the Benicia High School Key Club, Boy Scout Troop 007, two […]
The Benicia Tree Foundation has helped scores of Benicia residents choose the right tree for the right place on their property through the Benicia Tree Keeper Program, which also includes instruction on planting and maintenance. Chris and Cecile McNulty are the most recent Benicia Tree Keepers. They called the Benicia Tree Foundation asking for advice […]
Since 2005, Caltrans have removed over 400 trees from Benicia’s freeways. At its June 2 meeting, the Benicia City Council unanimously approved a resolution requesting that Caltrans plant replacement trees along the freeways and work with the City and local organizations on other tree planting and maintenance projects. Click here to read the City Council […]
Benicia’s Joe Henderson, Matthew Turner and Mary Farmar elementary schools held Fall Arbor Day tree planting events last week with the assistance of the Benicia Tree Foundation, to promote the importance of trees in our community and the need to plant the right tree in the right place. On December 1st at Joe Henderson, families […]
Second Saturday Tree Care Day event was held at the Liberty High School project site on October 13th. Volunteers removed weeds at the project site and were trained in basic tree pruning methods. None of the trees at Liberty had been pruned since they were planted in 2014 and had outgrown their tree stakes. Most […]
Twelve volunteers attend our first tree care day event of the new school year at Benicia High School on September 8th. Ten of these volunteers are in the picture below. About 70 trees were watered this day. Later in the year, we will be putting tree cages around the trees after the first winter rains […]
If young trees are “trained” or pruned to promote good structure, they will likely remain servicable in the landscape for more years than trees that have not been so pruned, especially if the training is started early on. Defects can be removed, a single, or dominant leader can be selected, and branches can be well […]
Fourteen volunteers joined Benicia Tree Foundation board members Alison Fleck and Steven Goetz for today’s Tree Care Day at the Lake Herman Open Space project site. The sky was sunny and the breeze kept our volunteers cool. All 67 trees were watered and the last of our vole-proof tree cages were installed. The volunteers included […]
