Sacramento Tree Foundation

Sacramento shade/neighborwoods:continuing a 30-year partnership with the Sacramento municipal utility district, the Sacramento Tree Foundation in fiscal year 2021 engaged and educated over 4,000 Sacramento county residents in the planting and care of over 10,000 shade trees. The trees were planted to maximize environmental and public health benefits, such as: energy savings, carbon sequestration,improving air quality, lowering urban heat, and stormwater reduction. To ensure that trees are planted and cared for in neighborhoods that need them most, we work directly with community members through our neighborwoods program. These initiatives focus on building local leadership and delivering programming that is customized to meet each communitys specific need. This year, over 2,500 volunteers joined us to plant, care for, and steward trees in sacramentos urban communities.

Nature: native trees in urban and rural environments (nature) is our program that replenishes and sustains the native flora and fauna of Sacramento county by planting and protecting native trees and woodlands. In fiscal year 2021, more than 950 native trees were planted to mitigate for Tree removal and over 5,000 trees planted in previous years were maintained. Trees were planted and cared for with the help of hundreds of volunteers and the expert staff at the Sacramento Tree Foundation. Other urban ecology department efforts included the harvesting of over 10,000 acorns from native oak trees throughout the region by volunteers and the participation of 700 students in the seed to seedling program. Growing acorns into young seedlings on the windowsillof classrooms invites young students to enter the natural world of exploration, wonder, and excitement. More than 5,000 native plants were cared for at the bear river habitat trail project in yuba county during fy20. 3,160 data points were monitored under contract with the natomas basin conservancy.

URBAN WOOD RESCUE:IN April 2018 URBAN WOOD RESCUE OFFICIALLY OPENED FOR BUSINESS. HISTORICALLY THE URBAN TREES IN SACRAMENTO THAT WERE CUT DOWN WERE SENT TO THE DUMP, CHIPPED INTO MULCH, OR CUT INTO FIREWOOD. URBAN WOOD RESCUE ACTIVELY DIVERTS THESE BEAUTIFUL TREES FROM THE LANDFILL AND CONVERTS THEM INTO USABLE LUMBER SO THEY CAN CONTINUE PROVIDING BEAUTY AND BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY. SALVAGING AND REPURPOSING THIS WOOD ADDS A NEW DIMENSION TO SACRAMENTOS LEGACY AS THE CITY OF TREES AND GIVES A SECOND LIFE TO OUR TREES. CARBON SEQUESTRATION IS AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION IN MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE. BY TURNING THIS VALUABLE WOOD INTO USEABLE LUMBER THAT CARBON CAN BE CAPTURED FOR MANY GENERATIONS WHILE ALSO UTILIZING A LOCAL RESOURCE THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BECOME TRASH. ALL PROCEEDS OF WOOD SALES SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE SACRAMENTO TREE FOUNDATION - EVERY PURCHASE HELPS US ACHIEVE OUR MISSION.