Treekeepers of Washington County

Our mission is to protect and advocate for trees in Washington County Our Key Strategies are: We engage with local communities and advocate together to protect existing trees in unincorporated Washington County. We collaborate with other organizations and volunteers to maintain or increase tree canopy in Washington County, especially in schoolyards.

Why Protect Existing Trees?

In many parts of urban unincorporated Washington County, large trees and groves are being removed during development. A healthy urban forest canopy provides significant benefits such as cooling our temperatures, absorbing pollution, soaking up rain that causes flooding, and other benefits.
Our goal is to show that trees and housing developments CAN and should coexist, and there are already examples around us. Join our movement to protect trees!

Our all-volunteer organization gets out on-the-ground to assist property owners in understanding the benefits of trees and in maintaining existing trees. We monitor new housing developments to ensure existing trees are protected according to jurisdictional policy. We have summer watering programs to help new and existing trees better survive climate changes. We are also engaged in a new program, "Cool Schools", to provide more natural shade for schoolyards in underserved communities.

Testimonials

Community feedback:
- On our monthly newsletter: "Treekeepers newsletter has great interviews and actual relevant articles to help the community. Very well done."
- "Treekeepers has really established itself as an organization in the county that gets things done."

Many volunteers return to perform ivy pulls because they find it very rewarding to know they actually helped to save an existing tree.