This fall, our Camden Urban Airshed Reforestation Program (UARP) planted 231 trees with help from 442 volunteers, bringing our numbers since inception to 5,040 trees planted in eleven years! Trees in urban areas improve air and water quality, mitigate pollution, assist with stormwater management, provide shade, and beautify inner-city neighborhoods.
This season, we are recognizing exceptional volunteers that rock our world! Thank you to Paul and Peter Wharburton, a father/son tree planting team, and the CMSRU Cooper Medical School students, who have dedicated themselves to improving Camden’s environment by planting trees.
Did you miss our exciting planting events? Click on the links below.
Campbell Soup Foundation Fruit Tree Project
Camden’s TD Tree Day at Liney Ditch Park
Adventure Aquarium’s “Trees for York Street”
We also hosted (4) street tree plantings made possible by the USDA Forest Service! Locations included the 600 block of Berkley Street, the 1100 block of Sycamore Street, N. 5th Street between Grant and Vine Streets, and Vine Street between 4th and 5th Streets.
THANK YOU to our Fall 2013 Sponsors and In-Kind Donors!
USDA Forest Service
TD Bank
Campbell Soup Foundation
Adventure Aquarium
Camden SMART
United Water Camden, LLC
MAFCO Worldwide Corporation
Wegmans of Cherry Hill
City of Camden
Also, thank you to the individual donors who make our work possible!
To organize a tree planting event in your community of Camden, please visit our UARP page for an online application or contact Jessica Franzini at (856) 287-4488 or jfranzini.njtf@gmail.com. Applications for spring events are due by December 31st, 2013.