Why Plant?

Beauty and oxygen are two reasons to plant a tree. Other reasons include increasing your property value and making your home more energy efficient. Streets with trees feel warm and inviting. Trees soften the hard line of cement sidewalks. Through their marvelous variety of shapes, sizes, colors, flowers and shade patterns, trees add visual interest in every season. Quietly, in exchange for a few gallons of water a week, they help mitigate the noise of traffic, remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and trap dust particulates on their leaf surfaces. Trees offer wind protection. They provide our urban wildlife with a place from which to watch the neighborhood and enjoy a meal.
Planting trees with Friends of the Urban Forest provides communities with a chance to come together in a positive way; to develop friendships that as the months and years go on can be renewed and enhanced at Tree Care workdays.

Planting trees is fun. Join us and find out for yourself!