| WELCOME to the website for Trees for Watertown, Watertown's volunteer citizen tree advocacy group! | |
| Trees for Watertown's 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.   May 14, 10 am: PUBLIC SHADE TREE HEARING FOR NINE(!) MOUNT AUBURN STREET TREES Shame on MassDOT for not designing this road reconstruction so that it saves all public shade trees. Send an email to Tree Warden mmicieli@watertown-ma.gov. Demand that Watertown require preservation of all healthy public shade trees! THE TREES UNDER THREAT 95 Mt Auburn Street -- small Red Maple 326 Mt Auburn Street -- large King Crimson Maple 330 Mt Auburn Street -- large Honeylocust with nest 489 Mt Auburn Street -- large Honeylocust 250 School Street -- large 12" Honeylocust 557 Mt Auburn Street -- beautiful Kwanzan Cherry with nest 575 Mt Auburn Street -- large Honeylocust 627 Mt Auburn Street -- EXQUISITE small Honeylocust Bigelow Delta - MIA-POW Memorial Callery Pear Come see Trees for Watertown at The Resilient Watertown Eco Fest! Saturday, May 10, 2025, 11 am - 2 pm Commander's Mansion, 440 Talcott Ave, Watertown -- Got tree questions? Ask TFW's Tree Ambassador!
-- Learn about Watertown's first Miyawaki Forest!-- Discover all the ways our urban trees keep us healthy and well! -- Find out what YOU can do to help Watertown's trees! Got tree questions NOW? email trees4watertown@gmail.com. Hope to see you May 10!  Trees for Watertown working group Forests for Watertown has a beautiful new website! Visit to see the latest FFW projects and how to sign up for forest-planting-related activities! GET ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR COMMUNITY TREES Wonder what kind of tree that is in front of your house? Or anywhere in Watertown? Explore Watertown's public shade trees via our City's interactive inventory map! Green dots are trees, blue dots are potential street tree sites. Click on a green dot to learn more. Interested in requesting a public shade tree for the street in front of your home? That's great! Here's a link to Watertown DPW's Tree Request Form. Is there a tree in Watertown, public or private, that you love and would like to share your appreciation for? If the tree is visible from the street, help other people appreciate it too via Watertown's own Community Tree Map App! This is a Google Map Overlay marking special trees all over Watertown. Click on a tree icon to see that tree, learn its name and find out why it's special. Great for walking tours! Please send us your favorite Watertown tree to add to Watertown's Community Tree Map! New entries to celebrate are always welcome. 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. We'll add your entry to the Watertown Community Tree Map so that other people can appreciate your tree too! CLICK HERE for lots more news from Trees for Watertown. CLICK HERE to download a brochure on 22 Benefits of Urban Shade Trees |
Trees for Watertown's monthly board meeting currently takes place on the first Monday of the month. TFW's monthly meeting takes place on line. See the TFW Calendar page for meeting dates and past meeting minutes. Watertown citizens interested in trees are encouraged to attend! Please drop us an email or call to let us know you're coming. CONSTRUCTION DAMAGE KILLS TREES Without adequate municipal supervision, and despite explicit tree-protective contract language, shade trees routinely suffer serious damage in road and sidewalk reconstruction work - especially their root systems. Loss of a healthy urban tree has major, long-term negative impact on its neighborhood. PLEASE HELP PROTECT OUR SHADE TREES! Here's a picture from Cambridge of the minimum protective barrier recommended during sidewalk construction work. The tree well is fenced to protect this part of the tree's root system. No materials are stored inside the tree's dripline.  This an example of a street tree with both trunk and root zone protection. This kind of protection should be routine for street work. If you observe construction or pruning activities that you feel may be damaging public shade trees, please notify TFW and CONTACT THE TREE WARDEN AND YOUR CITY COUNCILOR IMMEDIATELY. Utility pruning can seriously damage trees. See below for an example of the aggressive utility pruning protocol that heavily damaged Watertown's street trees in 2009-2010. For email or text message announcements about public shade tree hearings or utility pruning schedules, go to Watertown's NOTIFY ME website and select Tree Warden. NSTAR Utility Pruning, June 2010  |
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