How to Help Preserve Trees in Our Neighborhood

The Tree Ambassador Project, a program of Restoring Earth Connection and Inspire Olympia, wants your help.  The Tree Ambassador program has trained volunteers who travel their neighborhoods in pairs, meeting with neighbors and sharing with them the benefits of keeping their big trees on their properties.

See this handout for more on these benefits.

We also encourage people to register their tree for our contest. We are trying to identify the biggest tree in each neighborhood and the biggest of each species anywhere in Olympia.  Information gathered about trees will help the city better plan for city-wide planting and disease prevention.   We may also create some neighborhood tree walks.

If you are a tree lover and would like to be trained to be an ambassador, please sign up.  If these dates do not work for you, please contact Lynn Fitz-Hugh at lynn@fitz-hugh.org regarding other ways to become trained.   Volunteers have reported enjoying the time spent with each other, finding it very community-building to chat with neighbors, being educated about trees, and hopeful in the face of other world events that are not going well.