2010 Fall RNeighborWoods Community Tree Planting

Currently there are 27,720 vacant boulevard tree spaces throughout Rochester neighborhoods, out of a total of 56,779 spaces. The city is currently at less than a half of capacity and each year 500-900 boulevard trees are removed to disease or damage.

RNeighborWoods is doing our small part to add to Rochester’s urban forest, educate about the importance of trees, and nurture connectedness in neighborhoods.

Love community trees as much as we do? Help us celebrate national NeighborWoods month. Join us for a community tree planting in the South Park/Pinewood neighborhood where there are 250 empty spaces out of 446 boulevard tree spots. With your help we’ll fill in 100 of these empty spaces with leafy green trees, focusing on 20th Ave SE.

Saturday, October 16
9 am-Completion
South Park/Pinewood neighborhood
Meet at Pinewood Elementary School, 1900 Pinewood Road SE
No Cost

There is no pre-registration needed and all ages are welcome. On the day of the planting, just look for the RNeighborWoods table and smiling people with safety orange vests. There will be free refreshments for voluntrees thanks to our fall 2010 sponsors.

We’ll introduce our Citizen Foresters, go over the logistics of the planting, divide into groups, and then plant trees within this neighborhood. Here is a link for a doorknocking flyer for the tree planting; this is a front and back flyer, two per page.

See the photos from our spring planting on our Facebook page. We planted 500 trees in the Manor Park/Diamond Ridge neighborhood.

For more about RNeighborWoods including partners, events, and photos, check our website.

Did you know that trees make a difference in many aspects of a neighborhood? The below information is from the Alliance for Community Trees and additional facts and figures can be found on their website.

• Lower crime.
  The presence of trees in urban neighborhoods has been linked to reduced crime.
• Cleaner air
  Trees provide the oxygen we breathe. One acre of trees produces enough oxygen for 18 people to breathe each day and eliminates as much carbon dioxide from the air as is produced from driving a car 26,000 miles.
• Energy savings.
  Trees lower the temperature through shade. The cooling effects of trees can save millions of energy dollars.
• More public revenue.
  Studies have shown that trees enhance community economic stability by attracting businesses and tourists.
• Higher property values.
  Property values of homes with trees in the landscape are 5 – 20% higher than equivalent properties without trees.
• More efficient stormwater management.
  One tree reduces 4000 gallons of storm water runoff annually. 400 trees will capture 140,000 gallons of rainwater annually. That is, 4 million trees would save $14 million in annual storm water runoff costs.

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