The neighbors we volunteered with in West Seattle were excited about having new trees planted in their neighborhood and felt that they had gotten to know each other better in the process. The West Seattle project was one of forty-six different neighborhood groups to plant trees in October. The neighborhood groups applied and received free trees from the Tree Fund, a collaboration between the Department of Neighborhoods , Seattle Transportation, Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, and community groups. In exchange for trees, volunteers attended a training session on tree planting and care. Including the 1,542 trees that were planted this October, the Tree Fund has contributed more than 3,500 trees to our urban forest over the past three years.
Volunteers plant a deciduous tree.
The goal for 1999 is to plant 20,000 trees in observance of the Millennium.