Needs
The Sacramento Tree Foundation relies on the generosity of our donors to educate and engage our community to plant, protect, and value trees. Your support helps us steward the urban forest throughout its full life cycle, providing opportunities for community members to learn and get involved at every stage:
- Harvesting: Each fall, we gather the seeds that will reforest our region! With your help, we train volunteers to harvest 10,000 acorns each year to replant our region's native oak woodlands while learning about our local ecology.
- Sowing: After the acorn harvest, we distribute seedling-growing kits and educational materials to elementary school classrooms and youth organizations to inspire the next generation of tree stewards. Thanks to your generosity, these children witness the lifecycle of our urban forest and play a pivotal role in reforesting our native oak habitats.
- Planting: Every year, thousands of volunteers and community members help us grow a more livable and lovable Sacramento by helping us plant more than 12,000 climate adapted trees throughout the region. We need your help to grow our urban forest, especially in under-canopied communities, to ensure that Sacramento is the City of Trees for everyone!
- Tending: Throughout a tree’s life, it will need stewards in order to grow strong and provide the benefits to a community. We educate our community about tree care and steward trees to ensure we are growing a healthy urban forest that will thrive for generations to come. Your support provides free educational workshops and training to our community, helps irrigate, mulch, and tend to growing trees, and trains community scientists to stop the spread of Dutch elm disease.
- Reclaiming: We honor Sacramento’s fallen trees by keeping them out of the landfill and giving them a second life as live edge slabs and dimensional lumber. This process honors their legacy and continues to sequester carbon even after they have fallen. Your support completes the full life cycle of our urban forest and extends the beauty and carbon sequestration value of trees beyond their natural life.