Immediate funding opportunities for LA
Surviving tree maintenance
An estimated 50% of Altadena’s canopy has been lost, and work is underway to give remaining trees the best shot at survival. With water lines and irrigation systems destroyed, funding is needed to support water trucks, drivers and volunteers, and other services to maintain trees.
Tree assessment
As cleanup continues in full force, healthy and salvageable trees are being needlessly removed, worsening the community’s ecological trauma. Support is needed to establish and implement protocols for assessments by local arborists to establish plans for removal, pruning, landfill diversion, monitoring, and maintenance.
Nursery Development
To support sustainable restoration of community trees, support is needed to harvest seeds to preserve native genetics and biodiversity of the local canopy for future planting. This project will also expand nursery infrastructure, prepare seedlings for eventual planting, and collaborate with local partners to assess when and where planting can begin.
Planting and Distribution
Peripheral planting is underway to help improve air quality, and other benefits that were lost, near impacted areas. While the soil in the most intensely affected neighborhoods isn’t ready to replant yet, planting and distribution projects will need support to reestablish a resilient, fire-adapted urban forest when the time is right.
The loss in Los Angeles neighborhoods
The Palisades and Eaton fires are being called the most destructive wildfires in Southern California’s history.
*Based on news reports.
130K+
People evacuated*
37,469
Acres burned*
16,251
Structures, like homes, schools, and places of worship destroyed*
$250B
In damages*
Our experience in California
We've planted more than 3.2 million trees in California alone in response to natural disasters in the last decades. Since the Eaton and Palisades fires, we’ve been on the ground with our partners in Los Angeles County assessing damage and planning ahead.
Join the recovery efforts in Los Angeles
Maintaining surviving trees and doing prep work to restore tree canopies after the LA wildfires is underway, making long-term recovery possible.
Helping places and people recover after wildfires
Our approach following wildfires and other natural disasters involves collaborating with on-the-ground partners to understand immediate needs and planting with a long-term view of recovery.