Butte Environmental Council is partnering with the City of Chico's Urban Forest Manager in a three year urban forest tree planting campaign! This Cal-Fire funded project aims to increase the number of Chico street trees by 700 in the next three years (by March 2022) and anticipates planting more trees past the 700 mark.
The importance of our urban forest is great. Chico's urban forest is one of the most unique and precious feature of town that we get to enjoy, benefit from, and take care of. There are over 35,000 trees in neighborhoods and municipal areas of the city. The benefits they provide include: reduction of overall CO2 emissions, conservation of water, lessen soil erosion, shade and mitigation of energy costs, and increase in wildlife and plant diversity.
BEC protects our Urban Forest Health
How to become involved:
We will be hosting community events each Spring and Fall to plant a variety of trees in the private corridors of our urban forest. There are three ways you can help:
1) Register to receive a tree for your front yard. To register for a tree, we must first check to see if your address is in an eligible area. Please click the map below to see if your address is in an eligible part of town!
If you have determined that your address is eligible, or if you are still not sure after checking the map, then please fill out the Google Form below to the best of your knowledge. After filling out the form, one of the Urban Forest Outreach Coordinators will confirm your eligibility and reach out to you via email or phonecall to continue discussing the process about receiving a free tree.
If you have any questions about the tree planting event and the tree planting process, please click through our FAQ!
2) Be a local hero for our urban forest and volunteer at an upcoming event to help us achieve our goal. Fill out the Google form below and join our list of tree volunteers. You will be contacted with information about ways to help in the near future.
3) Make a donation to our tree fund. This fund helps us purchase the trees that we plant for our seasonal tree planting events and helps support tree maintenance.
Thank you for supporting our urban forest revitalization efforts!
On December 12, 2020, 30 volunteers came together in groups of family and friends to plant 30 trees in the yards of many lucky Chico residents!
Volunteers worked together family and friends in their immediate contact bubble to reduce the risk of COVID-19. This ensures a much safer way for volunteers to enjoy time outside and plant trees for the benefit of Chico's new tree owners and Chico's urban forest.
Click here to check out the photo album we have on Facebook! We have pictures from core volunteer training and from the day of the tree planting.
On May 2nd & 3rd, 2020, in the spirit of Earth Day, with the help of community volunteers, and despite COVID-19 curtailing our initially-planned tree planting event, we delivered 118 trees to Chico residents!
Check out our Facebook post and pictures of this tree delivery event by clicking here.