Dear Tree Community,

We hope this finds everyone well and enjoying friends and family for the holiday!

Thank you all for helping to increase the tree canopy in New Mexico during the fall 2022 planting season! So many wonderful people made this season successful!

Tree New Mexico planted four ABQ NeighborWoods plantings funded by ABQ City Councilors – one each by Councilor Benton and Councilor Bassan and two by Councilor Feibelkorn. These plantings were in McDuffie-Twin Parks and Mark Twain neighborhoods and the combined neighborhoods of Heritage East and Quintessence, and West Park and Huning Castle.

As part of our EPA Cooperative Agreement, we planted 50 fruit trees in the International District in Front Yard Gardens to address the food desert. La Puerta de los Niños and Adobe Acres Elementary School also received planted trees and tree education.

All of Tree New Mexico and all the tree adopters, neighborhoods, and schools, are grateful to the tree planters, team leaders, tree stewards, canvassers, table volunteers, ABQ city councilors, ABQ Parks and Recreation Department, the EPA Cooperative Agreement, KUNM & IVS, TreeGreenNM (a program of the Foundation for Building a Sustainable World), HEC, IDHCC, the ABQ Water Utility Authority Treebate program, AND YOU! Thank you for being part of increasing the tree canopy in New Mexico!

Since 2017, Tree New Mexico has increased the tree canopy by 8,061 trees!

Tree Stewards take a 10-week course to learn more about trees and tree care. This season, ABC Tree Stewards educated volunteers, tree giveaway recipients, and students on planting and tree care. They pruned, re-potted, watered, and monitored trees. Tree Stewards also continued learning with educational field trips.

Neighborhood association members canvass neighborhoods to find tree adopters that will care for a free planted tree. Welcome table volunteers help TNM staff organize large community planting events. We appreciate you!

Tree adopters accept a free planted tree, then they water and care for it. Tree giveaway recipients plant their tree, water, and care for it. Thank You!

   

Gratitude for Funders

Gratitude for Wonderful Partners

TNM is grateful for wonderful partners, HEC and IDHCC, that participated in many ways from identifying fruit tree adopters, canvassing neighborhoods, planting trees, leading teams, providing coffee and burritos to planters, sharing space at Cyclovia, and anything else that needed doing! You are the BEST!

Gratitude for Tree-Bate

Community events with over 100 people and 100 trees require space to meet. Thank you to ABQ Parks and Recreation for use of city parks, and to the Albuquerque Little Theater, Uptown Church, and Whittier Elementary School for use of their buildings and parking lots.

Shannon Horst, Kelly White, Betta Eisenberg, Maria Padilla, Luis Santiago, Rachel Hendrix, Maureen Poulas, and Tamar Randall believe in Tree New Mexico’s mission!

Mayor Keller asked Albuquerque citizens to plant a tree for every child for a total of 100,000 trees by 2030. Tree New Mexico, with the help of many wonderful volunteers, funders, and donors, is responsible for more than 8,000 of these trees in Albuquerque and plans to plant many more.

Please see the website for more information: Lets Plant ABQ – 100,000 Trees in Albuquerque by 2030.

Thank YOU for All You Do!
Tamar

Tamar Randall
Development Director
Tree New Mexico
505.265.4554
trandall@treenm.com
treenm.org