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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 for educational presentations, field trips, and to plan and sponsor tree planting or maintenance projects. For information or to be added to the e-mail list for notice of events, visit TREErific’s website or contact treerificAnchorage@yahoo.com.

Fairbanks Arbor Day Committee
Arbor Day Committee volunteers have organized tree-planting events in the Fairbanks area each year for over 25 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."

Les Fortune
lesfortune@hotmail.com
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 and has developed a management plan.
John Haas
Fairbanks North Star Borough
Department of Parks & Recreation
P.O. Box 71267
Fairbanks, AK 99707
(907) 459 – 1198
jhaas@co.Fairbanks.ak.us
Homer Tree Stewards
Homer Tree Stewards advise the Homer City Council on community tree and forestry issues and organize education and tree planting events.
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.

For more information, see the following publications:
- JUFP website: juneautrees.wordpress.com
- To be added to the email list, send a request to juneautrees@yahoo.com
- City & Borough of Juneau Parks contact: Terry Hinkley terry_hinkley@ci.juneau.ak.us
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. It has sponsored a landscape beautification contest and partnered with the local utility to produce a brochure on planting the right tree in the right place and mailed it to all customers.

Chairman Joe D'Arienzo: delsenzo@hotmail.com
(907) 747-7448
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.