Call For Volunteers: Week of March 10-14, 2008

At the moment we're looking for about 8-12 people who can be on call during the following days to help us process, sort and pick up the trees from Fairmount Park which is where they will be delivered by the tree nursery. At this point we don't know which day the trees will arrive or what time we'll be expected to show up. We do know it will take approximately 4 hours and the trees will arrive on one of the days during the week of March 10-14, 2008.

If you are interested in volunteering for this job specifically send us an email (phillytreepeople@gmail.com) and tell us which days during that week you are available.

We'll need volunteers for several other tasks as well and will provide details soon.

Thank You to PHS

Thank you to the PHS (Pennsylvania Horticultural Society) for planning to cut all of the sidewalks and properly disposing of the rubble for our neighborhoods for free this year.

This was going to be a time consuming task and costly task for our group and the neighbors that had volunteered to lend hand, their equipment and expertise.

Now we have more time to plan the rest of the tasks, details, and the lunch for volunteers that will happen after the trees are planted.

Learn more about PHS here: http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/

thank you notes

Hello Folks! Just wanted to let everyone know that we still have some thank you notes to get out to folks who submitted applications prior to the deadline. If you want to know if we submitted your request just send us an email at phillytreepeople@gmail.com, but we should be getting back to everyone soon.

Requesting Street Trees and Street Tree Services from Fairmount Park

I've heard through the grapevine that NOW is a good time to request a street tree from Fairmount Park (FPC) - if you missed the sign up for our March 2008 planting - you might want to go this route.

Click on the link below to open the FPC tree request form - check the Planting box and fill out your name and address and any other comments you would like to include.

http://www.fairmountpark.org/pdf/FPC_tree_request.pdf

You'll notice that this form should also be used for PRUNING requests, STUMP REMOVAL requests, and TREE REMOVAL requests.

You can find additional contact information for Street Trees from FPC on this page: http://www.fairmountpark.org/StreetTreeIntro.asp

81 Trees Mapped

Purple Lines - EKNA Borders (30 trees)
Green Lines - FNA Borders (24 trees)
Peach Lines - ORCA Borders (12 trees)
Pink Lines - KANAC Borders (15 trees)


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