Fall 2019 RNeighborWoods Community Tree Planting

Fall 2019 RNeighborWoods Community Tree Planting

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The city’s boulevard tree spaces are currently over half empty and each year up to 600 boulevard trees are removed due to disease or damage. We need your help to add more community trees to the Century Point NE neighborhood (just off of East Circle just NE of Quarry Hill on Century Valley Rd.) neighborhood. Through the teamwork of RNeighborWoods since 2004, we have utilized 7,000 volunteers to plant 7,752 boulevard trees.

Saturday, October 12
Starting at 8:30 am (usually finished by 11 am)
Meeting place: Cul-de-sac of Stone Park Lane NE
Parking: On any adjacent neighborhood street 

You’ll be able to see our volunteers at the check-in table. Register at the check-in table. You’ll be given a team color, told next steps including a tree planting demo and we’ll take a giant group photo. Then we’ll be off to plant some trees. Each planting group will have at least one Citizen Forester who has taken the course and can guide volunteers to ensure each tree is planted properly.

No Cost
No experience necessary 
All ages welcome
No cost 
There is no pre-registration needed 
If you have one, bring a shovel (labeled with your name)

There will be free refreshments and t-shirts for volun-trees thanks to our sponsors.

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Print or email this PLANTING POSTER for your friends!

Here is a map overview of the planting. In order to diversify our urban forest we will plant:

  • Small Stature (for under power lines)
    Lilac, Plum, Redbud, and Crabapple
  • Medium Stature
    Horse-Chestnut
  • Large Stature
    Ironwood, Coffee Tree, Chinquapin, Back Gum, Ginkgo, Filbert, Buckeye, Paperbark Maple, Pin Oak, Red Oak, White Oak, and Osage

See the photos from all of our tree planting events on our Facebook page. 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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