More About Your Trees

We have collected informational links to websites regarding all aspects of tree planting and tree maintenance in Mountain View California and the surrounding areas. We hope this information is of use to you. Please let us know if you have a suggestion for more information pages.

 

Tree Selection Guides and Tree Libraries

SelecTree.CalPoly.edu is an online tree selection guide listing 1,481 trees with up to 49 attributes and over 6,050 photos for 1,068 trees available from tree detail records. Search by tree attribute or by name.

Canopy.org is a Palo Alto-based non-profit advocate for the urbanforest and works to educate, inspire and engage the communityaas stewards of young and mature trees.

Tree Supplies

CommonGroundInPaloAlto.org is a not-for-profit garden supply and education center, located in Palo Alto. Common Ground offers a variety of classes and organic gardening products.

Safety Issues with Power Lines

SafeTree at PGE.com is a program that advises city and park officials about the planting and maintaining of trees so they do not disrupt overhead or underground utility lines.

Tree Education

TreesAreGood.com is an educational website providing the public with quality tree care information and is part of the International Society of Arboriculture ISA.

CaliforniaReLeaf.org is a statewide campaign to expand, enhance, and preserve urban and community forests - making our cities and communities more livable, improving the global environment, and connecting people to the land and to each other.

USDA Forest Service is one of 13 research work units affiliated with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, a USDA Forest Service Organization. Our offices are located on the campus of the University of California at Davis and housed with the Department of Environmental Horticulture.

Center for Urban Horticulture is part of the University of Washington and features research on peoples' perceptions and behaviors regarding nature in cities.

City and National Affiliations

Alliance for Community Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 83% of Americans live - cities, towns and metropolitan areas. Together, local ACT member organizations have planted 7.8 million trees with help from 450,000 volunteers nationwide.

City of Mountain View Forestry and Roadway Landscape Division is responsible for the maintenance of roadway and median landscaping and management of the urban forest including maintenance of city street trees (including those in parks) and enforcement of the City's Heritage Tree Ordinance.

ArborDay.org is a nonprofit conservation and education organization. A million members, donors, and partners support our programs to make our world greener and healthier.

 

Calendar of Events

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October 2nd, 2011

Sunday, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Farmers' Market, Train Station

Location: Downtown Mountain View, Caltrain Station parking lot at 600 West Evelyn Ave.

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Come visit our table at the Farmers' Market, meet some of our volunteers and find out more about the trees that keep our city so beautiful.

Tree-Themed Children's
Face-Painting!

This event repeats every other month on the first Sunday until Saturday December 31, 2011.

Spring, 2012
Saturday, 10:00 am - 11:30 pm

Children's & Adult's
Tree Walks

Location: To be announced

There are typically two tree walks on Saturdays. One for adults, and one for parents with their children.

Children welcome with a
parent or guardian.

Summer, 2012
Saturday, 10:00 am - 11:30 pm

Tree Selection Workshop

Location: To be announced

Parking: To be announced

Speakers:  Certified Arborists

No experience necessary

Certified Arborists collaborate to provide important decision information and selection criteria.

You will learn a methodical approach for your tree selection process.

  • Learn tree selection info in a nursery setting.
  • Discuss the difference between boxed, field grown, B&B, or container stock.
  • Find out the questions you need to ask.
  • Discuss installation methods.
  • Benefits:
         - Reduce your carbon footprint
         - Improve your land
         - Enrich your community

Bring your questions for our arborists!

  • Should you pick a tree with a skinny trunk or a thick one?
  • Is it better to have all the branches at the top of the tree or to have the branches distributed down the trunk?
  • How do you know if a tree will have girdling roots?

Summer, 2012
Saturday, 10:00 am - 11:30 pm

Young Tree Care
Workshop & Survey

Location: to be announced

Speakers:  Certified Arborists

No experience necessary

Learn how to increase the survival rate of young trees, and participate in fostering the success of Mountain View's urban forest.

Young tree care is especially important to ensure tree survival and promote a healthy, sustainable urban forest.

Mountain View Trees is offering a new Young Tree Care Workshop to provide you with valuable information about caring for newly-planted trees in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Join the Survey Team immediately following the workshop. Mountain View Trees will provide all the materials needed for you to survey a portion of this year's selection of recently-planted street trees.
You will receive addresses, survey forms, and door hangars containing tree care information to leave at each residence where a young city street tree is surveyed.

Once trained, you will walk your neighborhood on your own schedule, checking young trees for specific conditions to ensure their proper care. Then you will submit your survey results by mail and we will report to the City how those trees are doing.