For the third consecutive year, the RNeighborWoods team is thrilled to offer one lucky neighborhood a special outdoor park experience: a natural playscape! The winner for 2024 was the Historic Homestead neighborhood, where the logs have been enjoyed at Triangle Park. The Park and Recreation Forestry Department crafted Lincoln Log-style logs, which stack together to create a natural play area. These logs are sourced from local Rochester trees that the Forestry Department must remove for various reasons. By building this…

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Planting trees along streets maximizes the benefits of the city-wide tree canopy. Since 2004, we have achieved remarkable milestones as a community. Through the collective efforts of RNeighborWoods and 7,697 dedicated volunteers, we have planted 8,459 boulevard trees. This was possible through ninety-one events, including community tree plantings, citizen forester trainings, and neighborhood grant plantings. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits, including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Rochester’s urban forest includes 41,177 public trees on neighborhood boulevards and…

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For the second year, the RNeighborWoods team is offering a different outdoor park experience for a winning neighborhood: a natural playscape! The 2023 winner was the Elton Hills neighborhood, the logs placed at Allendale Park. Our partners at the Park and Rec Forestry Department have created Lincoln Log-style beams that can be stacked together in a natural play area, fun for all ages to climb and sit on. The logs come from local Rochester trees that must be removed for…

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Instead of offering the neighborhood tree grant as in the past, the RNeighborWoods team is switching things up a bit by giving your neighborhood an opportunity to apply for and enjoy a different kind of outdoor park experience, a natural playscape! Our fantastic partners at the Park and Rec Forestry Department have created Lincoln Log-style beams that can be stacked together in a natural play area, that is fun for all ages to climb and sit on. The logs come…

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Planting trees along streets maximizes the benefits we receive from the city-wide tree canopy. Through the teamwork of RNeighborWoods since 2004, we have utilized 7,452 volunteers to plant 8,231 boulevard trees. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Rochester’s urban forest includes 41,177 public trees on neighborhood boulevards and parks. In one year 33,100 lbs of pollutants were removed from the air and $719.284 in stormwater benefits were achieved thanks to these trees. Here’s…

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Volunteers and RNeighborWoods partners bundled up and showed up to plant 100 new street trees in the Prairie Crossing NW neighborhood on Saturday, October 8, 2022. The temperature was a chilly 30 degrees at the start of this planting, proving these Rochester volunteers are made of hearty stuff. Thanks to everyone who came out to lend a hand. What a difference your volunteerism has made to these neighborhood streets! About 120 volunteers watched a tree planting demo by the City…

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Planting trees along streets maximizes the benefits we receive from the tree canopy. Trees intercept rainfall, shade pavement to cool neighborhoods, and extend the lifespan of our streets. In our city, up to 1,000 boulevard trees are removed due to disease or damage each year. Through the teamwork of RNeighborWoods since 2004, we have utilized 7,332 volunteers to plant 8,131 boulevard trees. Our goal is to fill every vacant boulevard in Rochester with trees and we need your help in…

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Planting trees along streets maximizes the benefits we receive from trees and it is our goal to fill every vacant boulevard with trees. Tree intercept rainfall, shade pavement to cool neighborhoods, and extend the lifespan of our streets. Each year up to 1,000 boulevard trees are removed due to disease or damage. We need your help to add more community trees to the South Pointe Neighborhood. Through the teamwork of RNeighborWoods since 2004, we have utilized 7,000 volunteers to plant…

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Photo: In Spring of 2019, the RNeighborWoods team helped the Lowertown Neighbors plant 25 trees as winners of the Neighborhood Tree Grant. Trees make good neighbors. Since its creation in 2004, RNeighborWoods has organized 7,207 volunteers to plant 7,907 trees on Rochester boulevards. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Rochester’s urban forest includes 41,177 public trees on neighborhood boulevards and parks. In one year 33,100 lbs of pollutants were removed from the air and…

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