Update: Planting Events are now being scheduled for 2022-2023 Season
To request a tree visit Trees for Oakland at: https://goo.gl/forms/c7ara5FfZVm8U6593
After our major grant funding expired on December 19, 2019, we closed most of our operations and referred people to a local allied program, the Sierra Club Tree Team. The pandemic, however, kept them from being able to provide trees.
Now that we are able to organize safe outdoor events for volunteers again, we have decided to continue providing trees through our volunteer-based operations under the banner of Trees for Oakland and the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation.
Although we limited our plantings in the first three years of the grant to a "free-tree zone" in the Oakland flatlands (see the link to our map, below), we don't have that limitation anymore. We continue to encourage everyone to plant large-stature trees wherever possible, but we plant small-stature trees if local regulations and our judgment warrant one, such as in narrow tree-wells or in some locations with overhead high-voltage wires.
Without the definite funding from the CAL FIRE grant, we operate on a sliding-scale payment system. We want to be able to provide trees to everyone regardless of their ability to pay, but we will expect all property-owners to make some contribution. (Studies have shown that when someone pays even a small amount, they are more likely to consider that thing "theirs" and they will take better care of it than if they got it for free!)
To request a tree visit Trees for Oakland at: https://goo.gl/forms/c7ara5FfZVm8U6593
After our major grant funding expired on December 19, 2019, we closed most of our operations and referred people to a local allied program, the Sierra Club Tree Team. The pandemic, however, kept them from being able to provide trees.
Now that we are able to organize safe outdoor events for volunteers again, we have decided to continue providing trees through our volunteer-based operations under the banner of Trees for Oakland and the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation.
Although we limited our plantings in the first three years of the grant to a "free-tree zone" in the Oakland flatlands (see the link to our map, below), we don't have that limitation anymore. We continue to encourage everyone to plant large-stature trees wherever possible, but we plant small-stature trees if local regulations and our judgment warrant one, such as in narrow tree-wells or in some locations with overhead high-voltage wires.
Without the definite funding from the CAL FIRE grant, we operate on a sliding-scale payment system. We want to be able to provide trees to everyone regardless of their ability to pay, but we will expect all property-owners to make some contribution. (Studies have shown that when someone pays even a small amount, they are more likely to consider that thing "theirs" and they will take better care of it than if they got it for free!)
Click HERE to see a map of the “Disadvantaged Communities” (DACs) and surrounding buffer-zones of Oakland, using the CalEnviroScreen 2.0 rating system.
These areas have the highest priority for free trees under the California Climate Investments grant, which is administered by CAL FIRE, was awarded to the nonprofit Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation, and is being carried out by Trees for Oakland.
At the top left corner of the map, click on the red "magnifying glass" and enter your address. If it shows up inside the green outline, your address is in the high-priority zone for trees. Some locations outside the green line still qualified for the grant in our final-month push, under new direction from the CAL FIRE administrators.
These areas have the highest priority for free trees under the California Climate Investments grant, which is administered by CAL FIRE, was awarded to the nonprofit Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation, and is being carried out by Trees for Oakland.
At the top left corner of the map, click on the red "magnifying glass" and enter your address. If it shows up inside the green outline, your address is in the high-priority zone for trees. Some locations outside the green line still qualified for the grant in our final-month push, under new direction from the CAL FIRE administrators.
