Anchorage TREErific

Anchorage TREErific is a community group with a mission: Enriching our community through the planting, caring, and promotion of trees. TREErific volunteers meet monthly for educational presentations or activities and to plan and sponsor tree planting or maintenance projects. For information or to be added to the e-mail distribution list for notice of events, contact treerificAnchorage@yahoo.com.

Anchorage TREErific organized this tree planting and training at Abbott Loop Community Park. Volunteers continue to water and maintain trees here and at Turpin Park, where they also planted trees.

Fairbanks North Star Borough

The borough has an Urban Forestry Plan and a mission, To provide a hazard free, healthy, and aesthetically pleasing urban forest system in and around Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks. The borough completed an inventory of trees in 47 parks in 2005, has developed a management plan, and benefits from the support of a citizens advisory committee.

John Haas - Project Coordinator
Fairbanks North Star Borough
Department of Parks & Recreation
P.O. Box 71267
Fairbanks, AK 99707
(907) 459 - 1198
jhaas@co.Fairbanks.ak.us

Fairbanks Arbor Day Committee

Arbor Day Committee volunteers have organized tree-planting events in the Fairbanks area each year for over 20 years. In 2005, the committee was honored at the National Arbor Day Foundation's annual awards ceremony as a "program that best represents the spirit of the tree planters' holiday."

Fairbanks Arbor Day Committee
c/o Ritchie Musick
P.O. Box 161
Ester, AK 99725

Les Fortune
lesfortune@hotmail.com

The Fairbanks Arbor Day Committee plants trees in Veterans Memorial Park downtown, one of many Arbor Day plantings.

Homer Tree Stewards

Homer Tree Stewards advise the Homer City Council on community tree and forestry issues and organize education and tree planting events.

Hans Klausner
C/O Homer Soil & Water Conservation District
(907) 235-8177 extension 5
Email: Hansel@homerswcd.org

Participants in the Community Tree Steward course in Homer get hands-on training in tree planting at the University of Alaska Kachemak Bay campus.

The Juneau Urban Forestry Partnership

Juneau Urban Forestry Partnership is a volunteer nonprofit group that promotes the selection, planting, and care of trees within Juneau. The group is composed of community members ranging from master gardeners and foresters to landscape architects and members at large. Juneau Urban Forestry Partnership organizes Arbor Day activities and other tree plantings, works with local schools and youth groups, and provides tree and forestry related information. If you have questions about trees or shrubs, would like to learn more about the organization, or be added to the email list and receive the newsletter, send an email to Juneau Urban Forestry Partnership at juneautrees@yahoo.com.

Jeff Barnard, co-chair: jbarnard@ptialaska.net
Sondra Stanway, co-chair: spstanway@yahoo.com
City & Borough of Juneau contact is Terry Hinkley: terry_hinkley@ci.juneau.ak.us

Juneau Urban Forestry Partnership volunteers plant a tree in honor of founding father Joe Juneau at Evergreen Cemetery.

Sitka Tree and Landscape Committee

The seven-member committee, begun in 2001, has helped the City of Sitka complete a tree inventory and landscape plan. The group organizes projects to plant and care for trees and sponsored a landscape beautification contest in 2005.
Chairman Joe D'Arienzo: delsenzo@hotmail.com (907) 747-7448

Sitkans celebrate after planting trees and shrubs near the O'Connell Bridge to the airport in 2006. A Community Forestry grant funded the planting.

Other Communities

For information on how you can become involved in tree planting or other community forestry activities in your community, please contact the Alaska Community Forestry Program.