| 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.   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! The Miyawaki Forest planting day was a beautiful day and a great success. Thank you to everyone who participated! Now to keep all these little trees healthy and happy and watch them grow. Would you like to help? Sgn up here!  GET ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR COMMUNITY TREES Wonder what kind of tree that is in front of your house? Explore Watertown's public shade trees via an interactive inventory map! 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 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 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! 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 Tree Map App 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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