PLANTING. PROMOTING. PROTECTING.
Mission
Welcome to Trees for Watertown!
Our 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 city departments, local, regional and national organizations and the public to support a healthy urban forest in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Join our monthly meetings
Third Wednesday of each month from 7 pm to 8:30 pm on Zoom only.
NEXT MEETING:
(NOT Wednesday this month) Tuesday Nov. 17, 2026
7- 8:30 pm
Contact TFW at trees4watertown@gmail.com for Zoom Link
NEWSFLASH
Watertown’s long-awaited University of Vermont Tree Canopy Study is here! PLEASE COME JOIN US THIS MONDAY EVE, Nov. 16, to hear DPW Director Tom Brady and Tree Warden Mike Micieli present this report to the Watertown Environment and Energy Efficiency Committee.
Your presence and participation will help demonstrate how important strong protective stewardship of our urban forest is to the Watertown Community.
Event: WE3C Monthly Meeting
Location: 3rd floor meeting room, City Hall
Date: Monday Nov. 16
Time: meeting starts at 7 pm
This will be a hybrid meeting. Join in person or via Zoom. Download the agenda here.
ANNUAL MEETING
We had a great discussion at TFW’s 2026 Annual Business Meeting, and we were delighted that TFW Past-President Ruth Thomasian joined us!
To get a sense of what we talked about, please take a look at the attached pdfs summarizing the President’s Report.
When the schedule is confirmed for Part Two of the Annual Meeting, we’ll email details about the presentation with at least a month's advance notice, and will also announce the event more broadly.
Tree of the Month
Autumn color this year was especially beautiful, reminding us how trees add to our enjoyment of the environment. But this maple on Charles River Road put on a great show!
If you have a tree that you would like to see featured here, please send a good (sharp) photo to treesforwatertown@
gmail.com
Is there a tree in Watertown, public or private, that you love and would like to share your appreciation of to a wider audience?
If the tree is visible from the street, help other people appreciate it too via Watertown's own Community Tree Map App!
Send us your favorite Watertown tree to add to our Community Tree Map!
The more entries, the deeper the picture of how much Watertown loves its trees!
Here's what you do:
1. Take a nice photo or two of the tree
2. Send the photos, the tree's location by street address, and a brief statement about why this tree is special to you to trees4watertown@gmail.org.