It is shaping up to be a very different summer, a time for examining the things we often take for granted, like having equitable access to urban nature.

Dear community tree devotees, Many of us are entering the third month of sheltering-in-place. We are finding new ways to stay connected and are mastering our video conferencing skills. For those who love trees and are using ZOOM, we have created a few custom...

Dear community tree devotees, We are wanting to check in with you. All of us are feeling off balance. Right? All of us are at least a little fearful, some of us more. Some of us have elderly family members we are very concerned about. And we, even if healthy, vital,...

Planting Cool Parks  Our Invest From the Ground Up campaign has teamed up with West Coast Arborists, Inc, and the Western Chapter International Society of Arboriculture year after year, delivering programs to California’s disadvantaged and low-income communities...

Creating healthy urban forests. Our Invest From the Ground Up Campaign has teamed up with cities throughout Southern California to improve the long term health of our urban forests.

Welcome! Did you make it to the conference in San Luis Obispo? We were inspired by how many people are working hard to make some great tools and resources for us that help grow our urban forests. We have featured two of these tools below.

Enter now! Deadline for nominations is tomorrow at 5pm! There is still time to get your nominations in for the 2019 Annual Urban Forestry Awards.

Enter now! Deadline for nominations is tomorrow at 5pm! There is still time to get your nominations in for the 2019 Annual Urban Forestry Awards. If you or someone you know has undertaken great urban forestry work in the past year and deserves to be recognized, then...

Save your space! Registrations are now open for the 2019 California Urban Forestry Conference. Connect with municipal arborists, urban forest managers, landscape design professionals, planners, urban wood enthusiasts, and non-profits from across California for this…

Welcome. Today it feels like summer is certainly in full swing in Northern California. With our spring planting season behind us, we are busily confirming speakers and sessions and putting together a great conference for late September.

Welcome Across the state, the weather has been warming, the trees are flowering, and there is little chance of more rain in the forecast. It is not only time to start watering our trees, but for many of us across the state, it is also time to prepare for wildfire...