Bainbridge Trees

Why Bainbridge Trees?

Olaf Ribeiro and Jim Trainer just announced the creation of a new local non-profit named Bainbridge Trees to protect our island's trees that are disappearing much too fast.
You can listen to our conversation (10 min) , recorded today for Voice of Bainbridge.

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As a contribution I am starting a blog for Bainbridge Trees and you can contact them and/or register on the blog to keep in touch and join our effort.

Among the first goals are to save several historic downtown trees that the city does not seem inclined to protect, have the City join the Heritage Trees programs, have the City pass a tree ordnance (as most cities already have) and design one urban forester among its existing qualified staff. Is there someone who could help film a video to be aired on Bainbridge TV?

Protecting trees

An interesting program in Washington DC.

A quote in an interesting interview

From the interview of Karen Hundt in Grist Magazine

What environmental offense infuriates you the most? 

Clear-cutting every tree in a new subdivision and then naming the subdivision something like Forest Acres or The Orchard.

Forest giants

Forest giants of the Pacific Coast by Robert Van Pelt

Sequoia semper virens

The tallest trees on earth are the subject of an article in the New Yorker magazine this week:Feb 14 & 21 issue, pages 212 to 225, Climbing the redwoods, a scientist explores a lost world over Northern California, by Richard Preston.
It is about the work of botanist Stephen Sillet at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA.

about Kitsap Trees

Kitsap Trees is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote trees in Kitsap County.

If you would like to participate in one of our tree planting projects please contact one of our Board members.

Don Larson   Jim Trainer   John Allen   

Mike Sheperd   Daren Nygren

Name of Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Community Organization:
Kitsap Trees, working with 501(c)(3) Washington Scuba Alliance (WSA)  
www.wascubaalliance.org
WSA - Employer Identification Number (EIN) IRS # 91-1568264 

Kitsap Trees
Washington Scuba Alliance
PO Box 1302
Bremerton, WA 98337

KITSAP TREES MISSION STATEMENT  - Our urban and community trees and
forests are vital parts of Kitsap County's infrastructure and are
essential to the long term health of both the county's environment and
its residents. Thus, non-profit Kitsap Trees shall work in
co-operation with Kitsap Diving Association (KDA) & 501(c)(3)
Washington Scuba Alliance (WSA) volunteers to improve Kitsap County
communities by cultivating a public awareness and appreciation of
trees, fostering community forestry programs, emphasizing development
of educational programs for schools (work with Kitsap Water Festival
Educational Events {1994-2005} for 4th Grade students) and training
for the public, stimulating increased funding for acquisition and
maintenance of new and existing trees and forests, and promoting
partnerships with private enterprise and residents in the preservation
and management of urban trees and forests.

Every 1,000 urban trees we plant in the Northwest today will save our
region more than a million dollars in stormwater management,
"Non-Point Source" pollution abatement, and energy costs. (Source:
Center for Urban Forest Research, Davis, California)