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• Nice to meet you! I'm a new tree! 🌳

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  New trees require extra care - especially while they are establishing new roots in urban environments. To create tree canopy, filter more water, create more clean air, and store more carbon, we need our new trees to grow.

  
  

  Here are some resources on how we can best help our trees while they establish:

  • Caring for New Trees (PDF)
  • City of Boston - Caring for Street Trees
  • US Forest Service Tree Owner's Manual

  
  

  In Lynn, we are planting 150 new trees which require 2 years of watering and receive check-ups from the Urban Forestry Fellow. Each tree needs 20 gallons of water per week, applied once per week, so that the water goes deeply into the soil around the tree. That's why there is a green watering bag around each new tree's trunk. This bag also protects the tree (hopefully!) from mower and weed whip damage.

  
  

  Do you have a question about a new tree? Please email eholm@lynnma.gov with your questions, and include a picture and the number written on its tag if you can!

  
  

  Follow along with our progress using the new Tree Planting Dashboard:

  
  

  
  

• Seeking Interest in a Lynn Tree Committee

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  Fill out this form to let the City of Lynn know your thoughts on a Tree Committee! (Formulario de Interés del Comité de Árboles de Lynn)

  
  What is a Tree Committee? A Tree Committee is a local citizen-led group that works with public officials to improve the health of the urban forest (trees in the city) through advocacy, education, management, plantings, and/or maintenance activities. Not every municipality has one, and in those that do, they can be set up differently.

  Learn more here: https://www.mass.gov/doc/tree-boards-and-committees-fact-sheets/download

  
  

  Examples of Tree Committees:

  • Boston Urban Forestry Advisory Committee
  • Brookline Tree Planting Committee
  • Lynnfield Tree Committee
  • Swampscott Tree Committee

  
  

  Please share this form with anyone you think may be interested in providing feedback. Have a question or concern? Contact Erica Holm, Urban Forestry Fellow, at eholm@lynnma.gov or 781-586-6729.