| WELCOME to the website for Trees for Watertown, Watertown's volunteer citizen tree advocacy group! | |
| Trees for Watertown's mission is to care for our community and environment, by • promoting the planting and preservation of shade trees • serving as an educational resource as to the beauty, value, and requirements of trees • collaborating with town departments, local, regional and national organizations, and the public to support a healthy urban forest in Watertown, Massachusetts.  TREE NEWS The Successful Tree Planting Initiative is a series of articles from the Massachusetts Urban & Community Forestry Program detailing how to improve urban shade tree survival. (Quick summary: plant them right!) Here are links to these hugely informative articles. Part I Conducting a Site Assessment Part II Tree Selection Part III Tree Establishment TFW is publishing a series of articles in the Watertown Tab & Press. These give quick, easy-to-read information about best practices for urban home landscapes. You can link to the published articles here: Part I What's So Bad About Leaf Blowers? Part II What's So Bad About "Mulch Volcanoes"? Part III What's So Great About a Shade Tree? CLICK HERE for info about Watertown's TFW-sponsored public conversation on "What is a Tree Worth?" Watch the video on YouTube! CLICK HERE to download a brochure on 22 Benefits of Urban Shade Trees |
HOW ARE OUR YOUNG STREET TREES DOING? Please give Watertown a helping hand by filling out a brief report on the young trees in your neighborhood! CLICK HERE for info on how you and your family can participate! PLEASE HELP PROTECT OUR SHADE TREES! If you observe construction or pruning activities that you feel may be damaging public shade trees, CONTACT THE TREE WARDEN AND YOUR TOWN COUNCILOR IMMEDIATELY. This includes utility pruning. See below for an example of the pruning protocol NSTAR subscribes to. For email or text message announcements about public shade tree hearings or utility pruning schedules, go to Watertown's NOTIFY ME website and select Tree Warden. NSTAR Utility Pruning, June 2010  |
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