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Right Tree, Right Place Arbor Day Planting 2013

Right Tree, Right Place Arbor Day Planting 2013

After you attend Rochester Public Utilities’ 11th Annual Arbor Day Celebration on Friday, April 26 at Mayo Park from 11am-1 pm, come celebrate Arbor Day afternoon and plant 50 trees under utility lines. Join us and plant the right tree in the right place, short trees for under power lines. Friday, April 26, 2013 12:30 pm Meet east of the river along the power line area of Mayo Park, East of Mayo Civic Center • No cost • No experience necessary • All ages…

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2013 Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Award Winners

2013 Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Award Winners

Sponsored by the RNeighborWoods program, the Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Award was created to recognize amazing citizens, for outstanding contributions to Rochester’s urban forest. There are three categories for these awards including adult, youth and business. 2013 Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Award Winners Adult: Jason Schilling Business: Jim Whiting’s Nursery (Jim Whiting and Chris Graves) These awards will be presented by Mayor Brede at the Environmental Awareness Month Proclamation, Tuesday, April 2, 10 am in the Rotunda of the Government Center. Adult: Jason…

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2013 Spring Tree Grant Application Now Available

2013 Spring Tree Grant Application Now Available

Photo: On a very drippy Saturday afternoon, October 13, the RNeighborWoods team helped the Viking Village neighborhood plant 25 trees each, as part of their Neighborhood Tree Grant. Trees make good neighbors. Since its creation in 2004, RNeighborWoods has organized 4101 volunteers to plant 5160 trees on Rochester boulevards. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Once again the City of Rochester, RPU and RNeighbors is offering two grants for winning neighborhoods to receive free boulevard trees. Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant! We…

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RAW Winter Workshop – Thursday, February 21

RAW Winter Workshop – Thursday, February 21

Tree Assessment Likelihood & Consequences of Tree Failures Featuring E. Thomas Smiley, Ph.D., Arboricultural Researcher Brian Kane, Professor of Forestry, University of Massachusetts Thursday, February 21, 2013 Rochester International Event Center 7333 Airport View Rd. SW, Rochester, MN 55902 Mail-in Registration Form On-line Registration Here Sessions Dr. Smiley’s sessions will examine his new research about important tree risk information. This information is vital to the modern arborist – it pertains to anyone that removes, prunes, consults and climbs trees. Dr….

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2012 Fall RNeighborWoods Community Tree Planting

2012 Fall RNeighborWoods Community Tree Planting

Once again neighbors rolled up their sleeves this fall and planted trees, celebrating the great green community-building national NeighborWoods month. Thanks to over 280 volunteers, this fall 360 trees have found homes in Rochester neighborhood boulevards. September 29, was a gorgeous fall day and over 250 Rochester neighbors came out to plant 330 boulevard trees in the neighborhoods surrounding Fox Valley Drive SW. We started a little after 9 am, all of the trees were in the ground by 11 am. Thanks to each of you who…

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2012 Fall RNeighborWoods Tree Grant Planting

2012 Fall RNeighborWoods Tree Grant Planting

Photo: On a very drippy Saturday afternoon, October 13, the RNeighborWoods team helped the Viking Village neighborhood plant 25 trees each, as part of their Neighborhood Tree Grant. At RNeighbors, we know that trees make good neighbors. That is why we partner with the City of Rochester, the Park and Rec Department and Rochester Public Utilities to offer the RNeighborWoods Tree grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees in the spring and fall. Congrats to the Viking Village neighborhood for planting 25 new…

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Fall 2012 Community Tree Planting

Fall 2012 Community Tree Planting

On Saturday, May 5, 2012, over 500 neighbors, youth, and other community volunteers worked together to plant 1,200 trees in one morning, a record number of trees planted in one morning for the state of Minnesota and the RNeighborWoods program. The city’s boulevard tree spaces are currently over half empty and each year 500-900 boulevard trees are removed to disease or damage. We need your help to add more community trees to this neighborhood. This tree planting is funded by a…

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2012 Fall RNeighborWoods Tree Grant

2012 Fall RNeighborWoods Tree Grant

Photo: On April 21, the RNeighborWoods team helped both the Historic SW and the Folwell neighborhoods plant 25 trees each, as part of their Neighborhood Tree Grant. Trees make good neighbors. Since its creation in 2004, RNeighborWoods has organized 3,816 volunteers to plant 4,805 trees on Rochester boulevards. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Once again the City of Rochester, RPU and RNeighbors is offering two grants for winning neighborhoods to receive free boulevard trees. Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree…

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2012 Fall Citizen Forester Training Canceled

2012 Fall Citizen Forester Training Canceled

Photo: On Saturday, April 14, 2012, over 40 people dedicated their Saturday on all about how to be a Citizen Forester. When: Saturday, September 8, 2012. 8 am to noon (different times than listed in CE brochure) No lunch provided. Where: Quarry Hill  Nature Center Community Ed Class Number: 8644.131 Price: $15.00 Become a part of the Rochester urban forester team through this course led by the City of Rochester Forestry Division and RNeighborWoods. This class is packed with tree education, climbing,…

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2012 Spring Record Breaking Community Tree Planting

2012 Spring Record Breaking Community Tree Planting

What do you get when you have 1,200 trees, 500+ volunteers, some soggy, clay-based soil and 4 miles of empty neighborhood boulevards? You get a muddy morning, lots of hard work, tired volunteers and tree-lined streets that will benefit NW Rochester for decades to come. On May 5, over 500 volun-trees showed up to eager and willing to help break our past record (set in spring of 2011) of planting 1,000 boulevard trees in one morning with 450 neighbors. In…

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