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Annual Meetings

2024: What’s so important about preserving urban trees. Speaker: William R. Moomaw. Managing public and private trees in Watertown. Watch it here.

2023: Climate change is here: Can trees make a difference? Speaker: Laurel Scwab, AICP.

2021: Trees and climate change in Watertown. Symposium. TFW, the Watertown Environment and Energy Efficiency Committee, and neighbors joined together to discuss how trees help make our city liveable and practical things we can do to grow our community forest!
Read about it here.
Watch it here.
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2020: A community welcome to Gregory Mosman, MCA, Watertown's new Forestry Supervisor-Tree Warden
Watch it here.

2019: Trees & Climate Change in Watertown
How can trees help us, now and in the future?What can you do? How can Watertown assist you?

News Stories

2026

On May 15, 2026, Trees for Watertown attended the tree hearing for these three trees. We opposed cutting them down and the matter was bumped up to the City Manager. The final decision saved 2 of the trees on Fairfield and Gleason, while the removal of the tree at Holt St was stopped.

3 trees in question: 37 Fairfield St, 45 Holt St, 71 Gleason St