About Mountain View Trees

January 27, 2007, the volunteers of Mountain View Trees planted eight Chinese Pistache on Bryant Street between Mercy St. and California Ave., an area identified by City staff with a large number of missing trees.

November 10, 2007, we planted ten trees of various species in Cuesta Park.

January 26, 2008, we planted ten trees at our second anniversary planting at the Whisman Sports Center at Crittenden Middle School at 1500 Middlefield Road on January 26, 2008.

March 29, 2008, we teamed up with volunteers from Friends of Stevens Creek Trail to plant 16 more big, beautiful trees to fill in along the trail.

In the 2008-2009 planting season, Mountain View Volunteers put 50 more trees in the ground, this time at Shoreline and Charleston Parks.

Our first project was based on a critical needs assessment identified in discussions with City staff. Many trees die in the first five years of life but staff only monitor trees during the first years after planting so our first project was to survey trees that were three years old.

Volunteers checked for several measure such as watering, staking, and pruning. A total of 166 trees were surveyed by volunteers who then spoke with the homeowner or left information on how to care for the tree.

All the survey results were sent to city staff for action. In our second year, we surveyed one section of town for the City of Mountain View to determine if a designated site was conducive to the planting of a street tree and that information was relayed to the city staff.

During the summer, Mountain View Trees educated residents about the need to water their young trees and street trees.

Information is provided to and published by The Voice each summer. Also, articles are sent to neighborhood newsletters and email lists and flyers are distributed.

Our first tree walk was in Spring 2007 when we invited the public to join us in Old Mountain View looking at the trees on the Bush Street Tree Walk.

In August 2007, we hosted a workshop on Tree Pruning in Pioneer Park.

Then in May 2008, we developed a new tree walk in the Castro City - Mi Pueblo - Neighborhood and 20 friends and neighbors joined us for the tour.

We talk to people, share written information about trees, hand out Buttons and Tree Watering reminders, take names to join Mountain View Trees and accept donations.

We have a table display at the City's annual celebration. Like our activities at the Farmers' Market, we talk to people, share written information about trees, hand out Buttons and Tree Watering reminders, take names to join Mountain View Trees and accept donations.